Wilson Benesch is a manufacturer of high end audio loudspeakers and turntables for domestic and professional use, based in Sheffield, England. The company manufactures every component under one roof. The company was founded in 1989 and is run by Christina Milnes, with design driven by Craig Milnes.
It exploits the very latest 3D software to instruct advanced CNC machines. The company has also developed unique manufacturing technologies to process raw carbon fibre and resin systems to realise complex structures, optimised to deal with structural borne energy. These systems are ideally suited to the function being Low mass, High stiffness, non iso-tropic, intrinsically self-damping structures. Other notable materials that have been exploited include the Isotactic materials that were introduced into the companies Government funded dynamic driver project (The Bishop Project). The development resulted in the world's first multi role drive unit. The cone material that was developed came out of collaborative work conducted alongside the eminent physicist and inventor of the material Professor Ian Ward of Leeds University.
Wilson Benesch pioneered the use of advanced composite structures in many of its designs. and quickly grew out of the success of its innovative solutions in turntable and tonearm designs that rejected the "benefits" of the compact disc. In 1995 the company launched the world's first curved floor standing loudspeaker made from carbon composite at the Frankfurt High End Show. This key point in loudspeaker design heralded a sea change in all loudspeaker designs that were commonly rectilinear wood or polymer based constructions. The A.C.T. One has been superseded by The A.C.T. which is constructed from carbon composite and several alloys to achieve the world's stiffest cabinet construction.
Having successfully extended the bandwidth of its designs into the lower registers the company recently released two important designs that extend the frequency bandwidth up to 100 kHz. The Trinity design and A.C.T. C.60 feature numerous other innovations but provide for the first time solutions that can deliver extremely accurate sound that clearly demonstrates the importance of wide bandwidth sound reproduction. The A.C.T. C.60 is also notable for having introduced for the first time nano technology (carbon nanotubes) into the resin matrix of the cabinet construction. The A.C.T. C.60 structure is the most advanced system to come from the company to date.
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