Manticore

Manticore Origins

Manticore was an English turntable specialist that started trading around 1982 and began manufacturing mid to high-end turntables a couple of years later. The company was known not only for its turntables but also for manufacturing power supplies and custom bearings for third-party turntables. In the mid-1990s, Manticore acquired the rights to the Logic Audio pickup-arm designs. The company changed its name to “Manticore Audio Visual Shareholders Ltd” in 1997 with the aim of getting into CD-ROM publishing, but it ceased trading in 1999 or 2000. After the company’s demise, Doug Hewett, its main designer, is understood to be working for another English hi-fi company.