Letter R — Brands

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RAAL-requisite is an American manufacturer of high-end headphones and speaker systems, building a distinctive reputation for ribbon-driver headphone technology, an engineering approach borrowed from loudspeaker tweeter design and applied to a full he...

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Radiant Acoustics is a Danish loudspeaker brand announced in September 2024 by Peter Lyngdorf, built around drivers from Purifi Audio, the Danish transducer company he co-founded in 2014. Its first model was the Clarity 6.2 stand-mount speaker, and t...

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Radiotehnika is a historic Latvian audio brand from Riga, whose origins lie in a private radio business of the late 1920s. In the Soviet period it became the Riga Radio Factory, known by the initials RRR, and grew into one of the largest consumer aud...

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Raidho Acoustics is a Danish loudspeaker maker based in Pandrup in northern Jutland, founded in 2001 with designer Michael Børresen among its founders. The company builds high-end passive loudspeakers and subwoofers around its own planar ribbon tweet...

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Ranieri Audio Labs is a small Chicago-based high-end audio company led by owner and chief engineer Paul Ranieri. It made its public debut at AXPONA 2025 with a single product, the Varieta, presented as the first universal directly heated triode (DHT)...

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Razer is a gaming hardware company with dual headquarters in Irvine, California and Singapore. The current business was refounded in 2005 by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff after the original 1998 venture collapsed, and its core products are mice, k...

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Reed is a Lithuanian maker of turntables and tonearms, established in 2007 by designer and owner Vidmantas Triukas near Kaunas. The company is known above all for its tonearms, which include both radial (pivoted) designs and a tangential-pivot model,...

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Rega Research is a British hi-fi maker founded in 1973 and based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The name combines the initials of founders Relph and Gandy. Rega made its name with Planar turntables and RB tonearms, and today it also builds cartridges, ph...

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Rekkord Audio is a German turntable brand launched in 2021, building belt-drive record players in St. Georgen in the Black Forest. It grew out of the factory that previously produced Dual-branded decks for the European market, and its main focus is r...

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REL Acoustics is a British subwoofer specialist founded in 1990 by Richard Edmund Lord, whose first designs were built in Wales. The company makes nothing but subwoofers and bass systems, and it is closely associated with the high-level connection me...

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Remton Audio is a small Czech manufacturer based in Prague, trading as REMTON audio s.r.o. and active since around 2012. It concentrates on hand-built valve phono stages, with a single tube headphone amplifier alongside them, which makes it a narrow ...

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Revel is an American loudspeaker brand owned by Harman International and based in Stamford, Connecticut. It was started by Sanford Berlin, owner of Madrigal Audio Laboratories, and it is known for speakers developed through measurement and controlled...

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Revival Audio is a French loudspeaker company founded in 2021 by engineer Daniel Emonts and executive Jacky Lee, based in Alsace. It builds passive hi-fi speakers in two families, the Atalante and the Sprint, and its first two models, the Atalante 3 ...

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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 bec...

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Richter is an Australian loudspeaker maker based in Sydney, entering its 40th year of loudspeaker design in 2026. The company builds passive hi-fi speakers, and its current flagship family is the Series 7 Special Edition, a four-model range of floors...

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Riviera Audio Laboratories is an Italian maker of high-end amplification, founded in January 2017 by professionals with more than 30 years of experience in the audio industry. Trading as Riviera Labs, it builds valve and hybrid preamps, power amps, o...

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Rockna Audio is a Romanian digital audio company from Suceava, founded in 1999 by Nicolae Jitariu and best known today for its Wavedream and Wavelight converters, streamers and transports. Its work centres on in-house digital conversion, with proprie...

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Rockport Technologies is a high-end loudspeaker manufacturer on the coast of Maine, USA, which began as Payor Acoustics in 1984 under engineer Andy Payor and adopted the Rockport name in 1990. It is known for molded composite enclosures and drivers d...

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Rockport Technologies is a Maine loudspeaker manufacturer that started in 1984 as Payor Acoustics and has traded as Rockport since 1990, when its first product, the Sirius turntable, appeared. This page lists products filed under the company's full n...

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Rogers is a British loudspeaker and amplifier brand founded by Jim Rogers in 1947, best known for building the BBC-licensed LS3/5A compact monitor, of which about 50,000 pairs have been made worldwide. The company first made amplifiers, tuners and sp...

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Rogue Audio is a Pennsylvania company building valve, hybrid and solid-state amplification, founded in 1996 in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, by physicist Mark O'Brien and two colleagues from Bell Labs. The company started out to sell its first produc...

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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...

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Roksan Audio Ltd is the trading company behind the Roksan hi-fi name, a British maker of turntables and electronics set up in 1985 in Rayleigh, Essex. The listing here refers to the very company shown on the primary Roksan page, and the products list...

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Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments and music-production equipment, founded in Osaka on 18 April 1972 by Ikutaro Kakehashi. Drum machines and synthesizers such as the TR-808, TR-909, TB-303 and Juno-106 made its name, and it ...

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ROSESELSA is a Chinese personal-audio brand, formerly trading as Rose Technics, that makes in-ear monitors, true wireless earphones and portable DAC/amplifiers. Its best known wired models are the Aurora Ultra and the QT-X. Range & what it's known f...

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Rosso Fiorentino is an Italian loudspeaker company based in Florence, founded by electroacoustic designer Francesco Rubenni. It takes its name from the 16th-century Florentine painter Rosso Fiorentino and builds passive hi-fi speakers designed and ma...

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Rosson Audio Design is a small Los Angeles headphone company set up by Alex Rosson after he left Audeze, which he co-founded and ran as CEO, in late 2015. Its product is the RAD-0, a planar-magnetic headphone aimed at studio reference use as well as ...

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Rotaxis Audio is a small maker of digital-to-analogue converters whose first product, the Core64 DAC, was announced in 2025. The converter is its single model so far. Range & what it's known for The Core64 is a passive resistor ladder DAC with 24 b...

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Rotel is a family-owned Japanese electronics maker whose brand was launched in Tokyo in 1961 by Tomoki Tachikawa. Its roots go back to the Roland company, an importer of Sylvania televisions that began building audio products for other brands in its ...

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RPG Diffusor Systems is an American acoustics company founded in 1983 by physicist Dr. Peter D'Antonio and based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It took Manfred Schroeder's theory of reflection phase gratings out of the laboratory, and its QRD 734 of 19...

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Ruark Audio is a British family company in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, known for table radios, compact music systems and, since 2024, passive loudspeakers again. It began as Ruark Acoustics, a loudspeaker maker started by Brian O'Rourke and his son Alan ...

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Rupert Neve Designs is a US manufacturer of recording and live-sound hardware, founded in 2005 in Wimberley, Texas, by the British-born engineer Rupert Neve together with his wife Evelyn and Joshua Thomas. The company builds microphone preamplifiers,...

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Russell K is a compact UK speaker brand started by Russell Kauffman, a designer who previously worked on loudspeakers at B&W and Morel. Russell K. Ltd. concentrates on a single family of passive speakers, the RED series, covering compact standmounts ...

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Russound is an American manufacturer of multiroom audio systems, amplifiers, architectural speakers and control hardware, founded in 1967 in Newmarket, New Hampshire. It began with hi-fi accessories such as speaker selectors, tape monitor switchers a...