ONIX AUDIO History
How we got here
Adam Worsfold, Anthony Brady and Craig Hill are the original founders of ONIX AUDIO in Brighton England 1984
( 2 engineers & 1 salesman ) partnered in mid 1984 . They knew music could be sound better if only it was played with much better amps . Two of the founders Anthony Brady and Adam Worsfold designed and built such an amplifier, using a early design from the archives of an underground vault at Thorn EMI . The company they both served as apprentice electronic design engineers, from school and during day release at college.
They used parts they had ( oops Thorn EMI had ) with musicality being the founding principle of everything they did. Once it was perfected they needed a sales outlet, Brighton HiFi was a shop in the seaside town of Brighton and Craig Hill ran the shop with his father . ONIX AUDIO was born and history was made . Three guys and ONIX AUDIO set the rules that others since followed . They were disrupters of the 80s within the Hifi world .
The first real product ONIX Made is the now classic and iconic OA21 . It was a unique and the first shoe box size amp and it took the world by storm, with many others copying our format through the years. It was an remains the first and unique shoebox size amplifier . Its is know to be an ageless design with pure black and huge three knob design . The theme still carried on today
We sold it to enthusiastic Hifi dealers. and people that loved music . Magazines loved it , ( Click Here ) our first review was with “The flat response “and even today our original OA Amps are cherished by all that still have them . The OA21 evolved and got better and better from 1984 to the final ones in 1991 . Today the spirit of OA21 lives on with our Founder, Adam Worsfold becoming the creator of the awesome and respected DNA range of amplifiers sold now in 2026 . Direct descendants of the OA21 from real DNA of ONIX AUDIO
ONIX DNA - the perfect evolution of sound