Some brands chase trends. Lindy Electronics has spent more than nine decades doing one thing exceptionally well: making the cables, adapters, switches and extenders that quietly hold everything else together. From a 0.5 m HDMI lead on a home desk to a 150 m HDBaseT KVM extender running a broadcast gallery, the catalogue at lindy.co.uk covers the connections most people only notice when something stops working.

That longevity is the headline. A company founded in 1932 and still shipping next-day from a UK warehouse in 2026 has survived every format war the industry could throw at it — SCART, VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C — and kept the same promise printed under its logo: Connection Perfection. This review looks at why Lindy Electronics remains such a dependable choice, from the depth of the range to the KVM line-up and the experience of buying direct.

Lindy Electronics: more than 90 years of Connection Perfection

The story starts in 1932, when Kurt Lindenberg founded the business in Breslau. After the war the company re-established itself in Mannheim in 1948, and the shortened Lindy name — taken from the founder’s surname — was adopted in 1968. The British arm opened in 1987 and is still headquartered in Stockton-on-Tees, which is why UK orders ship domestically rather than crossing a border.

• 1932 — Kurt Lindenberg founds the company in Breslau
• 1948 — the business is re-established in Mannheim, Germany
• 1968 — the Lindy brand name is adopted
• 1987 — Lindy Electronics UK opens, now based in Stockton-on-Tees
• 2022 — the group marks its 90th anniversary
• Today — offices in Germany, the UK, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, the USA, Australia, China, Taiwan and Japan

Nine decades of trading matters more in this category than in most. Connectivity is a market where cheap sellers appear, ship a container of unbranded leads and vanish the moment a batch fails. Lindy Electronics carries part numbers that stay in the catalogue for years, which is exactly what you want when you need to order the same adapter again in eighteen months for the other forty desks.

A catalogue of 2,500+ products, organised the way engineers think

The UK site lists more than 2,500 products, and the navigation is refreshingly literal: New Products, Cables & Adapters, Audio & Video, USB, Power, Infrastructure & Security, Lindy Academy and Resources. No lifestyle categories, no guesswork — you pick the physical thing you are trying to connect.

Cables & Adapters alone runs to 1,065 items across 45 pages, filtered by Audio & Video, Network, USB, Thunderbolt and Power. Every tile shows the part number, the price including VAT and a live stock figure — 1,050 in stock on the 0.5 m High Speed HDMI lead, 1,408 on the 0.2 m UK 3-pin to IEC C13 mains cable. Being told the exact quantity on the shelf before you commit is a small thing that removes a lot of doubt.

Two details make the listings genuinely useful. A VAT (Inc.) toggle sits in the header, so business buyers can flip the whole catalogue to ex-VAT pricing rather than doing arithmetic on every line. And a Region selector routes you to the right national store, which is how a German manufacturer manages to feel like a local supplier in a dozen markets.

KVM switches and extenders: where Lindy Electronics really shines

If there is one area where Lindy Electronics outclasses the general-purpose accessory brands, it is KVM. The category carries 45 products spanning desktop switches, rackmount switches, IP access modules and long-haul extenders — the kind of kit that ends up in control rooms, editing suites, labs and trading floors rather than on a kitchen table.

A sample of what was in stock and priced when this review was written:

• 2 Port HDMI 4K30, USB 2.0 & Audio Cable KVM Switch (part 42340) — £103.57 inc. VAT
• 2 Port HDMI 4K60, USB 2.0 & Audio Cable KVM Switch (part 42345) — £165.91 inc. VAT
• 2 Port Type C, Dual HDMI 4K60 KVM Switch (part 42321) — £239.14 inc. VAT
• 4 Port HDMI 4K60, USB 3.0 & Audio KVM Switch (part 39313) — £274.04 inc. VAT
• 100m Cat.6 HDMI & USB KVM Extender (part 39350) — £124.33 inc. VAT
• HDMI, KVM & IR over IP Extender (part 39320) — £231.36 inc. VAT
• 150m Cat.6 DisplayPort 1.2, USB, IR & RS-232 HDBaseT KVM Extender (part 39385) — £630.40 inc. VAT
• CAT-32 IP Computer Access Module, USB & VGA (part 39634) — £84.55 inc. VAT

That spread is the point. A two-port cable KVM for a hot-desk at around a hundred pounds and a 150 m HDBaseT extender at six hundred sit in the same catalogue, under the same warranty, from the same supplier. You are not stitching together three vendors to cover one building.

Buying direct from lindy.co.uk

Buying straight from the Lindy Electronics UK store gets you the things marketplaces cannot reliably offer: the manufacturer’s own stock, the manufacturer’s own technical team, and a returns process that does not involve a third-party seller.

• Next-day delivery on UK orders from domestic stock
• Free UK-based technical support — real engineers, not a scripted queue
• Hassle-free returns handled directly by Lindy
• Sales and advice by phone on 01642 754000 if you would rather describe the problem than decode a spec sheet
• Live stock counts on every product tile, so you know what can actually ship today

The phone number sitting in the header of every page is a small signal that says a lot. Plenty of connectivity brands make you dig through three menus to find a contact form. Lindy Electronics puts a UK landline above the logo and staffs it with people who know the difference between HDBaseT and HDMI over IP.

Trade accounts, education and AV integrators

Alongside the consumer checkout there is a Quote function and trade account facility, which is where the catalogue starts to make sense at scale. Integrators, IT departments, universities and AV installers can build a quote, keep consistent part numbers across a rollout and order against account terms rather than a card. Combined with the ex-VAT toggle and the deep stock figures, it turns a webshop into something closer to a distributor relationship.

Lindy Academy and the resources library

The Lindy Academy sits in the main navigation — a training and education resource covering the standards behind the products: HDMI versions, USB-C power delivery, HDBaseT distances, cable construction. For anyone specifying kit rather than just buying it, that background material is more valuable than another marketing page, and it is a genuinely unusual thing for an accessory brand to invest in.

If you enjoy brands that document their own technology properly, our review of FNIRSI test equipment covers a similar philosophy applied to bench instruments, and Electronic First is worth a look if software licences are the next thing on your list.

Who Lindy Electronics is for

• IT and AV professionals who need one supplier covering everything from a patch lead to a rackmount KVM
• Home-office and creative users who want a cable that will still work in five years
• Integrators and installers specifying repeatable part numbers across a multi-room or multi-site build
• Education and public sector buyers who need trade accounts, quotes and ex-VAT pricing
• Anyone with an awkward connection problem — the adapter catalogue is deep enough that the answer usually exists

Verdict on Lindy Electronics

Lindy Electronics is the rare kind of brand that gets better the more you rely on it. The range is broad enough to be a single source, the KVM line-up is strong enough to stand against specialists, the stock information is honest, and the UK operation backs it all with next-day shipping, free technical support and a phone number that gets answered. Ninety-plus years in, Connection Perfection still reads less like a slogan and more like a description of the product catalogue.

If you are specifying connectivity for a desk, a studio, a classroom or a control room, browsing the Lindy Electronics catalogue is the fastest way to find a part that will be there again the next time you need it.

Rating: 4.6 / 5