Neva Audio was founded in St. Petersburg in January 1991. The company has chosen high sound quality and high reliability as the main credo.Fyodor Kuruzbaver, executive director and founder of the company in the 70-80s. worked as a concert sound engineer in such groups as: "Singing Guitars" directed by A.N. Vasilyeva, the Pulse rock group with the participation of A. Asadulin and A. Rosenbaum, the Druzhba ensemble directed by A.A. Bronevitsky, with the ensemble of M.L. Pakhomenko, in the rock groups "Earthlings" and "Soyuz" I. Romanov.The first technical director of the company Neva Audio Rataev Vladimir Vasilyevich had 25 years of experience in the development of amplifiers. For his work, he received 20 copyright certificates, a gold, two silver and one bronze medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements and a gold medal of the International Leipzig Exhibition. And when the iron curtain fell and its amplifier, the Corvette 88, was in America, an enthusiastic article appeared in Fortune magazine for May 1992 with the headline "Stereo Beast from Russia," in which Walter Schofield, the product manager of Cambrige Soundworks, co-owned by legendary Hi-Fi innovator Henry Kloss, delightedly said, "This is a beast. Its bass is absolutely amazing. "The company is fully focused on the design and manufacture of professional high power amplifiers only. The first hundreds of KIT PA-500 mono amplifiers were successfully sold throughout the country. They were equipped with studio monitors manufactured by VNIIRPA them. Popov, developed by IA Aldoshina for the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In 1994, recognition came in the West as well."My business contacts with Russia began around the time when I accidentally heard the amplifiers of the Neva Audio Firm in Western Europe. I started using them in my monitor systems, not because they were half the price of similar Western ones, but because they sounded twice as good ... "Philip Newell, studio designer,