Atoll Electronique
Website:https://www.atoll-electronique.com/en
Est. year: 1997
Atoll Electronique is a French maker of amplifiers and digital sources founded in September 1997 by the brothers Stephane and Emmanuel Dubreuil in Brecey, Normandy. Stephane is an electronics engineer and Emmanuel trained in business management with an export focus, and they started the company because they saw few audiophile products at affordable prices. Today Atoll sells about 41 products through some 80 French retailers and exports to more than 40 countries.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog is organised in numbered lines. The Signature line holds the IN50, IN80 and IN100 integrated amplifiers, the PR200 preamplifier, the MA100 and AM100 power amplifiers, the ST200 and ST300 streamers, the DAC100 and DAC200 converters and the SDA200 and SDA300 all-in-one units, while the Evolution line, introduced in 2024, carries the IN200, IN300 and IN400 integrateds, the PR300 and PR400 preamplifiers, the AM200, AM300 and AM400 power amplifiers and the CD200 and CD400 players with matching DR200 and DR400 drives. Around them sit the CD50, CD80 and CD100 players, the MS120 streamer, the PH100 and PH200 phono stages, an FM tuner and the AV100 and AV500 multichannel amplifiers. The first products in 1998 were the IN50 and IN80 integrateds, the PR100 preamp and the AM50 and AM80 power amps, followed by the first CD players, the IN100 and PR200 in 2000, the 400 range in 2010 and 2011, the ST100 and ST200 streamers in 2012 and the SDA all-in-ones in 2014.
Who owns it and where it's made
Atoll Electronique is a private SARL still led by the Dubreuil family. The company began in a 150 m2 workshop in the former Sodibois premises on rue des Ecoles in Brecey, moved to a new building in 2001, added 600 m2 of workshop and offices in 2016 and 300 m2 of storage in 2024, bringing the site on Boulevard des Merisiers to 1,400 m2. All products are designed and hand-assembled there.
The lineup in this catalog
Amplifiers and source components (5). Asking prices for the listed models sit between roughly EUR 1,000 and EUR 5,000.
Who it's for
Atoll is built for a French separates system that grows one box at a time inside a single family. An IN50 or IN80 with a CD50 or MS120 is a first step, the IN100 or IN200 with a DAC200 or ST200 is the middle of the range, and the 300 and 400 lines with separate PR and AM units are the end of the path for a larger room. The SDA200 and SDA300 serve someone who wants streaming, conversion and amplification in one chassis, and the AV100 and AV500 extend the same electronics into home cinema.