Nimbus was founded in 1972 by Count Numa Labinsky[1] (performing as bass vocalist under the alias Shura Gehrman[2]) and the brothers Michael and Gerald Reynolds, and has traditionally been based at the Wyastone Leys mansion site, near Monmouth and the English/Welsh border.

The emergence of home-theatre systems with increasing emphasis on surround playback offers opportunities for domestic listeners to experience at least some of Nimbus' many hundred Ambisonic recordings in their original condition.

[5] No electronic processing is used: instead, the gramophone is placed in a living room environment and recorded ambisonically, in surround-sound, from a typical listening position.

Although controversial, the technique is capable of producing remarkably lifelike results – particularly for recordings made "acoustically" prior to the arrival of studio microphones in 1925.

Following the demise of Robert Maxwell, the equipment company was spun off and the intellectual property rights to the Nimbus Records catalogue were ultimately re-acquired by the original owners[7] under the name of Wyastone Estate Limited.