Our company · Kokkedal, Denmark

Six decades of
measurement-grade
obsession

DPA grew out of Brüel & Kjær, the Danish house that built microphones to measure sound, not flatter it. That measurement discipline is still the whole company — engineering first, marketing second.

The best sound is close to the source.

DPA microphones used in an acoustic research setting.

In short

A small Danish company with a long reach

  • FOUNDED

    1992

    Spun out of Brüel & Kjær's microphone division, carrying its measurement heritage into pro audio.

  • MADE IN

    Kokkedal

    Designed and assembled in Denmark, where every capsule is built and tested to a single standard.

  • ON STAGE FOR

    20+ years

    The body mic of record on Broadway and the West End, trusted where failure isn't an option.

A production sound mixer working with DPA microphones on a film set.

The standard

Built to measure,
used to perform

A measurement microphone has one job: report the sound truthfully, with no character of its own. DPA carried that idea into the concert hall and the theatre. The result is a microphone that gets out of the way — so what the audience hears is the performance, not the equipment.

See how it's used

How we build

Engineering first,
marketing second

Three things every DPA capsule has to earn before it ships — the same three the company was founded on.

  • 01 / SOUND

    Honest, not flattering

    No hyped low-mids, no scooped detail. The capsule reports the source and steps back.

  • 02 / CONSISTENCY

    Matched, unit to unit

    Tight tolerances so a replacement sounds like the one it replaced — night after night, mic after mic.

  • 03 / DURABILITY

    Survives the road

    Sweat, humidity and a thousand shows. The mic that fails on opening night was never engineered enough.

A Broadway theatre where DPA microphones are used on the cast.

Where you've heard it

You've heard DPA
without seeing it

Arena tours, West End pits, classical halls, film sets and broadcast studios. The work is invisible by design — which is exactly why most people who've heard a DPA have no idea they did.

Meet the people behind it

DPA Journeys · Film

The people who
make it disappear

DPA Journeys is a film series about the craftspeople our microphones serve — the recordists, mixers and sound designers who decide what an audience never notices. The next one is a portrait of a theatre sound designer.

Watch the concept
A sound designer listening intently in a darkened theatre, half-lit.

Work with us, or work near us

Dealers, distributors, application questions and press — there's a person in Kokkedal for each of them.

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