Thierry & WangO Brand story
The genesis of Thierry & Wango Audio was not born from commercial calculation, but from a pilgrimage of sound that spans half a century and bridges East and West.
The narrative begins in the golden era of high-fidelity audio—the 1960s. In France, inventors Georges Gogny and Georges Poutot created the Orthophase, a revolutionary flat-panel transducer that stunned the audiophile world with its speed, realism, and lack of distortion. However, like many great artistic endeavors of its time, the technology was lost to history in the 1970s, its secrets seemingly buried with its creators. The audio world moved on to mass production, but the legend of that pure, breathing sound remained.
For two men on opposite sides of the globe, that legend became a life’s pursuit.
Thierry - France
Thierry, a surgeon by profession and an audiophile by passion, discovered the legendary Orthophase speakers in the 1980s. When he learned that the revolutionary polystyrene membrane technology created by Georges Gogny and Georges Poutot had ceased production in the 1970s and its secrets were lost, he embarked on a seven-year industrial investigation.
Using his microsurgical expertise and driven by pure passion rather than profit, Thierry successfully reverse-engineered the complex magnet-and-membrane assembly, creating the first ATB2G cell and resurrecting a technology once thought extinct.
Wango - Hong Kong
Growing up under his father, Mr. S. F. LEE, one of the pioneers in the Hong Kong's earliest high-end audio in the 1960s, Wango was immersed in the world of sound from then. Mr. S. F. LEE, a music enthusiast with a strong technical aptitude, handcrafted custom systems using Orthophase driver units.
It was the memory of a massive, custom-built Orthophase system—a sound that was "natural, steady, and completely non-fatiguing"—that set the benchmark for his entire life. For decades, Wango searched for a modern equivalent, but nothing could match the emotional resonance of those vanishing drivers. The quest to look for the Orthophase Cells eventually lead him across continents.