Metronome - Hand-assembled high-end products
There are many high-end manufacturers on the market, but it is not something you see every day to find French manufacturers. But now Métronome Technologie has arrived in Denmark. The design philosophy is quite simple: to deliver hand-assembled products of very high quality that can play both new and traditional formats.
The story behind Metronome
Métronome Technologie was founded in 1987 by the craftsman Dominique Giner, who had a great passion for music. Before founding the company, Dominique Giner had designed special hi-fi furniture specifically shaped like a metronome. (A metronome is a small device used by musicians to signal a steady beat in music, either by sound or light).
The piece of furniture was a great success, with sales of more than 1,200 units, and it gave Dominique the necessary capital to start Métronome Technologie, headquartered in the Tarn district, southwest of the city of Roquemaure near Toulouse.
From the beginning, Dominique Giner’s main focus was the CD player as a medium and the optimization of digital-to-analog conversion. Today, the company still has its main focus on digital sources and conversion, even though it has produced both speakers and turntables over the years.
Metronome’s best-known products
The first product created by Giner was made in collaboration with Janis and had the model designation Jadis CD Transport JD 1. Subsequently, however, the products were released under the Métronome model designation. For example, the very impressive Kalista CD transport, which was the product that put Metronome on the world map.
In 2014, Christian Bat and Jean-Marie Clauzel took over Métronome from Dominique Giner, but Dominique Giner continued as chief designer.
Métronome Technologies is still a micro-company in the hi-fi world, with very few employees and a handful of French external partners helping ensure that the quality is among the very best on the market. For example, Métronome Technologies is one of the very few manufacturers that still install circuit boards manually.
