Canford Audio was founded in 1976, and is unchallenged as the UK's largest pro-audio manufacturer and distributor, with an annual turnover of around £15M. The Canford catalogue is widely accredited as the most comprehensive and well known industry reference, with all featured products fully supported by an in-depth free technical support service. Many of the 12,000+ items in the range are original Canford designs, manufactured either by ourselves or to our specifications by specialist cable plants, plastic moulders or metal fabricators. Around £2.5M of stock is held, to offer same-day despatch of the majority of the catalogue range. A considerable number of more specialised products and accessories are also listed and these are available to special order. Full details of How to Order and delivery options are inside the back cover of this catalogue. The UK sales team can take orders for same-day despatch right up to 5.30pm, and the Tech Support staff provide in-depth technical support and applications advice. The multi-lingual export sales team at Washington has freight specialists to ensure we can ship anywhere in the world at the best possible prices, with all the right documentation. Canford also has sales offices in Dublin and Strasbourg to provide a local service to our Irish and French clients. These offices are all on-line to the main computer system at Washington, allowing real time access to stock, technical, accounts and other information. Canford can invoice in all European currencies and the US Dollar, with, in most cases, local banking arrangements, so that buying from Canford really is simple and economical.

Since 1986 Canford has been based at Washington in the North-East of England, in two buildings on Crowther Road totaling 6625m² (70,000ft²). One houses an extensive warehouse, plus sales, tech support and admin staff. The other provides a large manufacturing area for the production of Canford, NEAL, EMO, ASC, Totalsystems and Tecpro products, together with design and quality assurance staff. A manufacturing operation at Portland in the South-West of England has extensive metalworking and assembly resources for the production of video connectors and panel products. Around 200 staff in total are employed by Canford at the three UK and three European sites.
Canford holds a major BBC supply contract, particularly featuring the BBC range of cables, but covering almost every aspect of broadcast studio requirements. The NEAL range of audio and audio/video interview recorders are used by every UK police force, and the Scottish courts record their proceedings on multichannel NEAL recorders. Canford's MUSA video patch panels is now the most widely used MUSA connection system worldwide.
As part of Canford's commitment to deliver the highest quality service, a Standards Manager constantly reviews and, where appropriate, amends the group Quality Systems. Canford and NEAL hold ISO9001:2000 UKAS recognised quality registrations.

The Canford website www.canford.co.uk continues to develop and now includes online trading together with details of new products, more technical information and downloadable background material, as well as special offers and clearance bargains. Canford have a rolling new product introduction programme and the website is a vital tool in bringing you new products between issues of the catalogue.

Canford is committed to ever improving the reference manual of the industry, both in the well-loved and respected print version, and by electronic delivery - The Source - The Canford Catalogue!