DELA AUDIO

‘MELCO’ stands for Maki Engineering Laboratory Company.

Melco was established by Makoto Maki in 1975 in Japan. Maki, an enthusiastic audiophile, established the company to design and manufacture the finest audio components of the time – the undoubted masterpiece of the Melco line being the turntable, introduced into the UK in 1980, which set new standards in music reproduction.
From those early beginnings Melco developed into the largest computer peripherals manufacturer in Japan, offering advanced products based on rigorous R&D, including Wireless routers, Ethernet Data Switches and storage devices such as NAS drives.

Now the Company is proud to revive the highly-respected Melco brand, offering discerning audiophiles high technology networked audio components in the spirit of those much revered early Melco products, while incorporating the very latest research into reliable high performance networked devices and storage.

DELA

The rebranding from Melco to Dela makes sense, as it aims to clarify what stands for the name — namely, the Japanese company Dela. Interestingly, in the region where the manufacturer is based, “Dela” means “extreme,” so there’s nothing wrong with that connotation. Especially considering the brand has been known for years as a high-end name in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Neither the design nor the internal components of the products are affected. The brand will continue to focus on high-quality network solutions. After Melco was recently integrated into Buffalo, Dela became the flagship brand for high-end audio within the group, and that change is now being implemented across the entire company.

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