Case Study: Accuphase (high-end audio manufacturer) achieves faster, higher-quality PCB design with Altium Designer

Accuphase - Customer Case Study

Accuphase Laboratories of Yokohama, Japan is a boutique maker of hand-built, high-end audio equipment that treats PCB design as essential to sonic quality. With low production volumes, highly iterative R&D and many prototype cycles, the company needed to complete all board-level design in-house while reducing development time and maintaining uncompromised quality.

Accuphase adopted Altium Designer’s unified PCB environment to enable seamless, fast iteration, tight process control, and powerful simulation and multi-channel support. The result was faster, higher-quality board designs and optimized audio modules—such as their 16-bit Analog Vari-gain Amplifier—and flagship products like the C-2800 preamplifier, delivering improved SNR, low distortion, precise channel balance and more efficient documentation workflows.

Accuphase

Mark M. Suzuki

Director, Engineering Dept