Welcome To The John Hardy Company Web Site.

The John Hardy Company manufactures and distributes world class microphone preamplifiers and other signal processing products for recording professionals, broadcast applications and project studio engineers. The audio circuitry, components and construction methods employed in all John Hardy products are simple, elegant and superior.

The most popular product, the M-1 mic preamp, has been impressing artists, engineers and listeners around the world since 1987. Typical comments include "Whoa!", "Even the producer could tell the difference!" and "I won't record without them!"

I hope you enjoy your visit. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you would like to receive a printed information package by mail, let me know. I would be happy to send one to you. Thank you.

Sincerely,
John Hardy

July 25, 2008: See you at AES San Francisco, October 3-5, 2008 Booth #716.
March 1, 2008: Price increases on sockets for 990 due to price of gold, potentiometers due to increased cost, and AMB products due to exchange rate. Preamp prices remain the same.
August 22, 2007: 990 data package updated to include new photo of 990C, 990A and 990C schematics.
January 16, 2006: Link to a TapeOp interview, issue #15, Jan/Feb 2000. See the Links page.
December 28, 2004: All preamps are available with greater than 60dB maximum gain. Call for details.
April 17, 2004: Updated prices and PDF file on the Prices page (Output isolator and FB-2 price increase).
January 17, 2004: Two articles written by John Hardy are now available as PDF files on the Links page:
    1. "Mic Pre-amp Evaluation Methodology"
    2. "Outboard Mic Pre-amps: What's the Deal?"

Site originally designed by John L Rice. Updated by John Hardy.