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Roksan
Website:https://www.roksan.co.uk
Roksan is a British hi-fi company founded in August 1985 in Essex, England, by Tufan Hashemi and Touraj Moghaddam, two graduates of London universities. It became known first for the Xerxes belt-drive turntable and later broadened into amplifiers, CD players and streaming electronics, all developed in-house in the UK.
Range & what it's known for
The Xerxes remains the design the name is tied to. Instead of isolating the platter and arm on springs, as most decks of the mid-1980s did, it relied on a rigid chassis with lateral stiffness and groove stabilisation, an approach that set it apart in its time. Below it sat the Radius turntables as the entry point to Roksan vinyl. On the electronics side the company produced the K3 integrated amplifier, the Blak amplifier and CD player, and the Caspian system of integrated amplifier, CD player and tuner. The current catalogue centres on two families, the Caspian 4G with a streaming preamplifier and power amplifier that can also run as monoblocks, and the Attessa 1G with a streaming amplifier and an integrated amplifier.
Who owns it and where it's made
Hashemi and Moghaddam ran Roksan as an independent firm from Rayleigh in Essex for three decades. In November 2016 it was acquired by Monitor Audio, the British loudspeaker maker, and today it sits in the Monitor Audio Group alongside Monitor Audio itself and Blok. The group describes itself as a fully independent British audio business, and Roksan engineering work is carried out in-house in Britain. A five-year warranty is standard on current models.
The lineup in this catalog
Roksan turntables and electronics in several categories, priced from about GBP 1,000 to beyond GBP 8,000.
Who it's for
Roksan fits a listener building a British system around either a turntable or a modern streaming amplifier. The Attessa models give a compact way in with streaming built in, while the Caspian 4G pre and power pairing sits above them, with the option to add a second power amplifier and run two units as monoblocks. Vinyl owners who value the Xerxes lineage will find the brand's name strongest in record playback.
Range & what it's known for
The Xerxes remains the design the name is tied to. Instead of isolating the platter and arm on springs, as most decks of the mid-1980s did, it relied on a rigid chassis with lateral stiffness and groove stabilisation, an approach that set it apart in its time. Below it sat the Radius turntables as the entry point to Roksan vinyl. On the electronics side the company produced the K3 integrated amplifier, the Blak amplifier and CD player, and the Caspian system of integrated amplifier, CD player and tuner. The current catalogue centres on two families, the Caspian 4G with a streaming preamplifier and power amplifier that can also run as monoblocks, and the Attessa 1G with a streaming amplifier and an integrated amplifier.
Who owns it and where it's made
Hashemi and Moghaddam ran Roksan as an independent firm from Rayleigh in Essex for three decades. In November 2016 it was acquired by Monitor Audio, the British loudspeaker maker, and today it sits in the Monitor Audio Group alongside Monitor Audio itself and Blok. The group describes itself as a fully independent British audio business, and Roksan engineering work is carried out in-house in Britain. A five-year warranty is standard on current models.
The lineup in this catalog
Roksan turntables and electronics in several categories, priced from about GBP 1,000 to beyond GBP 8,000.
Who it's for
Roksan fits a listener building a British system around either a turntable or a modern streaming amplifier. The Attessa models give a compact way in with streaming built in, while the Caspian 4G pre and power pairing sits above them, with the option to add a second power amplifier and run two units as monoblocks. Vinyl owners who value the Xerxes lineage will find the brand's name strongest in record playback.
