Revox
Website:https://revox.com/
Est. year: 1948
Revox is a Swiss audio brand whose story begins in 1948, when Willi Studer founded his company in Zurich. The Revox name was registered in 1951 for consumer products, and the first Revox-branded tape recorder, the T26, followed in 1952. The brand became known above all for reel-to-reel machines such as the A77, of which more than 460,000 units were built, and today it makes multiroom systems, loudspeakers and analogue gear for the home and for public buildings.
Range & what it's known for
Tape remains central to the brand's identity. Beyond the A77, the B77 arrived in 1979 and the G36 belongs to the earlier valve era, and over the decades Revox also produced cassette decks, CD players, FM tuners, turntables and loudspeakers. The current range centres on the STUDIO MASTER M500 and M300 audio systems, the M51 modular multiroom system, Joy network receivers and the Studiomaster T700 turntable, alongside a full loudspeaker line. In recent years the company redeveloped the B77 tape recorder from the ground up as the B77 MK III, and it also manufactures its own analogue sound carriers. Products are designed to stay maintainable, repairable and compatible with other Revox components over many years.
Who owns it and where it's made
Willi Studer sold the Studer Revox Group to the Swiss firm Motor-Columbus AG in 1990, and a year later the group was split into Studer for professional audio, Revox for hi-fi and a manufacturing division. When the Studer side went to Harman International in 1994, Revox was excluded from the deal and sold to private investors. The company now has bases in Dietikon in Switzerland, Villingen-Schwenningen in Germany and Salzburg in Austria. Development, manufacturing and testing take place at the Villingen manufactory in the Black Forest, where the products are labelled Made in Germany.
The lineup in this catalog
Streamers and amplifiers make up the Revox listings here, with prices running from roughly USD 1,000 to above USD 5,000.
Who it's for
Revox is a good match for a whole-home system from one maker, with network receivers and modular multiroom hardware that can serve a single room or an entire house. A Joy receiver is the simplest way into the brand, while the STUDIO MASTER systems and the wider loudspeaker range let an installation grow room by room. Analogue enthusiasts have a separate path through the T700 turntable and the B77 MK III tape machine.