Peter Lyngdorf’s audio career reads like a history of high-end audio technology itself — from early digital room correction to Steinway Lyngdorf’s RoomPerfect. Here’s the full picture, in his own words.
Snell Acoustics and the first digital room correction
Peter Lyngdorf’s involvement in room correction goes back to 1990, when he bought the American speaker brand Snell Acoustics — drawn in by the fact that Snell was already working on what would become the world’s first digital room correction technology. The first working system followed in 1993, with a frequency resolution of 0.6 Hz, fully functional across the whole range. It made Snell Acoustics the first company to achieve full-range digital room compensation, even if, as Lyngdorf puts it, nobody quite knew yet what to do with it.
Room correction wasn’t Lyngdorf’s first chapter in audio. He had been the distributor for NAD Electronics since 1975 — present for products like the classic NAD 3020 — before owning the brand outright until he sold it in the late nineties, choosing to focus more on digital technology development. He still holds exclusive distribution rights for NAD across Scandinavia, Germany and the Benelux today, and describes the relationship with the brand as still close.
TacT Audio, DALI, and the ventures that followed
In 1996, Lyngdorf co-founded TacT Audio with an American partner, continuing the room correction work. That company produced the TacT Millennium amplifier — the first true fully digital amplifier, a design that, more than two decades on, Lyngdorf still considers among the best of its kind. DALI, the speaker brand, is older still: he started it in 1981–82 and remains involved, with CEO Lars Worre running day-to-day operations as DALI continues to grow.
After splitting from his TacT Audio partner over diverging ideas, Lyngdorf founded SL Audio — the company behind the Steinway Lyngdorf collaboration — where RoomPerfect itself was developed. Along the way he also owned Gryphon Audio for about three years, stepping in to help a friend through a financial squeeze before handing the company back once it was back on track. Today he holds smaller stakes in a microphone company and in Soundbox, a maker of powered speakers for parties, alongside continued ownership of HifiKlubben, the retail organisation active across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland and Germany. It’s this combination of ventures that eventually led to Steinway Lyngdorf itself.
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Frequently asked questions
Which company gave Peter Lyngdorf his start in room correction?
Snell Acoustics, which he bought in 1990. Its first digital room correction system launched in 1993.
Does Peter Lyngdorf still own DALI?
Yes. He founded DALI in 1981–82 and remains involved, with Lars Worre running daily operations as CEO.
Where was RoomPerfect developed?
At SL Audio, the company Lyngdorf founded after TacT Audio — the same company behind the Steinway Lyngdorf collaboration.
What other audio ventures has Peter Lyngdorf been involved in?
NAD Electronics (distributor since 1975, later owner), TacT Audio, Gryphon Audio (owned for about three years), a microphone company, Soundbox, and the HifiKlubben retail chain.
