Sound & Electro Systems A/S

Sound & Electro Systems (SES) A/S was a small manufacturing company in Oslo, Norway.

In addition to cutting and galvanizing lacquers, the company ran a cassette duplication and manufacturing division.
SES was located on the third floor in Østerdalsgata 1, which was the same building as Arne Bendiksen Studio was located. The SES cutting studio was in fact only two floors down from Bendiksen's recording studio. The cutting room was upgraded some time before 1980 by Eastlake Audio Ltd., as one of the few studios in Norway.

The president of the company was Yilmaz Dagci, who ran the company together with a Turkish associate named Cedsal.
SES was active from the early 1970s until it went bankrupt in the early 1980s.

The company is usually credited with one of the following runout etchings:
SES (most common)
The SES Mastering Lab
SES master lab
SES OSLO
S.E.S. NORWAY
SES CUTTING
SES CUTTING CENTER
SES CUTTING CENTER, OSLO
SES CUTTING ROOM

Signatures of known engineers:
Fred = Fred Torgunrud. Often mistaken as "Cred". Worked up until 1978.
Rolf or RoKj = Rolf Kjernet. Worked between 1978-1980.
Alan = Alan Graves. Worked from 1980.
Don or DB = Don Buchanan. Worked between January and June 1981.

Printed name variations:
Sound & Electro Systems A.S.
Sound & Electro Systems
Sound Electro Systems A/S
Sound Electro Systems A/S, Oslo
Sound Electro System
S.E.S. a/s