Atlantic specifications

atlantic Lautsprecher GmbH Vertriebsgesellschaft

The atlantic Lautsprecher GmbH Vertriebsgesellschaft was founded at the end of the seventies from the Munich hi-Fi studio Light&Sound in order to realize and sell the developments of the Viennese "acoustic researcher" Hans Deutsch .

In the HiFi yearbooks 9 and 10, the models Pedro Lume 001, Barbados 002, Porto Santo 003, Santo Domingo 004 are listed, as well as the Skyline 050 in the Yearbook 10.

It was written on the nameplates of this generation: "Designed and tested under supervision by Hans Deutsch , acoustic researcher" For the 1982 vintage, the program was modernized and the most expensive box Skyline 050 was removed from the range. The proper names disappeared from the brochures and from the HiFi Yearbook 11, and the well-known compact boxes only retained the numbers, 001, 002, 003 and 004 as the designation. In addition, a model 005 appeared. Two new models, HD205 and HD308, presented a more modern design and a new nomenclature: the three-digit count was continued, but a 2 or 3, as an indication of the 2- or 3-way interpretation, and a prefix HD, as an indication of their developer "Hans Deutsch ", was put in front. At the suggestion of a Düsseldorf advertising agency, a new brand, ATL , was introduced and the company was finally renamed ATL Atlantic Lautsprecher GmbH in the spring of 1982.

The boxes of this generation carry the ATL /Hans Deutsch brand. The activities of Atlantic ended with the sale of the inventory to its own sales manager, Bernhard Mörtl, and Bernhard Mörtl founded the company ATL in December 1982.