MWA Albrecht GmbH was originally formed in 1926 as a manufacturer of Radio components.
Following the Second World War the company was reformed and embarked on the manufacturing of audio equipment specifically intended for the film industry.
The year 1947 saw the first Audio magnetic tape recorders and players being developed.
In the early 1970s the first modern type electronic synchronisable Mag recorder/player the MB41 was introduced revolutionising sound for film and broadcast.
1980 saw the launch of the MB51 multiformat Mag machine, followed shortly by the PB51 multi format high speed studio film projector.
The MB51 rapidly earned a reputation as the best machine of it’s’ type worldwide and sold almost 2500 units making the name MWA Albrecht GmbH truly world famous in the professional Audio and Film fields.
MWA went on to further this reputation by introducing the only modern Optical Sound Recorder the LLK in 1995. This machine differs greatly from the only other older style system currently still in use, in as much as the sound is recorded on the negative film using a green NeHe laser beam which results in unparalleled accuracy and performance statistics.
Over the last 54 years the name MWA Albrecht GmbH has become synonymous with the highest engineering quality, and technical innovation; a tradition that continues today following the takeover of the company at the end of 2002, and renaming as MWA Nova GmbH.
MWA Nova GmbH is committed to the continuation and further development of both Albrecht’s reputation and products.
We have retained the development and engineering aspects of Albrecht, and have implemented this in house expertise in the design of a new generation of film products which promise the famous MWA engineering excellence at ground breaking prices.
MWA Nova also exclusively distributes a number of Film, Video, and Audio post production tools and systems from such well known and respected manufacturers as:
| Digital Vision | Digital intermediate film mastering, mpeg encoding and image restoration systems |
| San Lab Systems | Film cleaning systems |
| Lindos | Audio monitoring systems |
| Image Systems | Filmscanner |