The company
Besson of Switzerland — Swiss maker of analogue equipment for the Tomatis method since the 1990s.
A continuous analogue lineage, faithfully maintained since the 1990s — in keeping with the technical parameters that define the Tomatis method.
Our expertise
Besson of Switzerland designs, manufactures, calibrates and services in Switzerland the professional equipment used in listening pedagogy according to Alfred Tomatis: the N426 Electronic Ear, individual workstations, voice modules, headphones, transducers, musical media and accessories.
Our guiding thread is a continuous analogue lineage, advancing in measured increments, with no technological break: real-time analogue gating, precession preserved, fidelity to the original parameters that define the method.
A professional approach
The equipment is intended exclusively for trained and approved practitioners. The product sheets are public; access to ordering, pricing and technical support is available on request.
Origin and background
The story of Besson of Switzerland begins in 1986, the year its founder, Christophe Besson, met Alfred Tomatis. From that meeting grew a lasting commitment to the method: for years, he practised, repaired and maintained the equipment — individual workstations, headphones, servicing — staying as close as possible to the hardware and its real-world use.
In 1992, this involvement became a company: Acoustic System Besson SA, working in close collaboration with Alfred Tomatis on the design and manufacture of his equipment. It is this continuity, unbroken ever since, that constitutes the expertise of Besson of Switzerland today.
This direct connection explains our choices. The 100% analogue processing of the signal is not nostalgia: it is a deliberate technical decision, made to remain faithful to what gives the gating and filtering their effectiveness according to Tomatis.
Our equipment is part of a continuous lineage, with no break or reinvention: each generation of equipment extends the previous one, in keeping with the same original parameters. This is not equipment rebuilt to follow a recent fashion — it is the continuity of an expertise proven over more than thirty years.
Today, Besson of Switzerland designs, manufactures and calibrates its equipment in Switzerland, in partnership with the International Federation of Audio-Psycho-Phonology and Listening Pedagogy (F.I.A.P.E.).