Stellavox

Stellavox

Industry	Manufacturer, Audio
Founded	1955
Headquarters	Hauterive,[1] Switzerland
Key people	Georges Quellet
Products	Professional Audio Equipment, Recorders, Mixers
Website	www.stellavox.com/support.html

Stellavox was a company based in Switzerland and was most noted for their compact portable reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recorders of extremely high mechanical quality, used by radio and TV-stations^[2] and motion picture location sound mixers as an alternative to the Nagra recorders. They were developing and manufacturing full size studio recording decks such as the Stellavox TD9 as well, which is still considered one of the best tape recorders ever made^{[by whom?]} and has become a legend. Due to the high price, which was caused by the complexity of the technical solution and the precision of hand-made Swiss production, only a few hundred pieces were produced.

In the late 80s Stellavox started the development of a portable professional DAT Digital Tape Recorder, the Stelladat.^{[citation needed]}

In 1993, without having reached the break-even with this new product, the owners decided that the market was evolving too fast towards computer recording and that the traditional Stellavox products did not have enough potential anymore. Financial support was dropped and all activities were stopped.^{[citation needed]}

Sonosax, another small Swiss Audio company, bought the rights to continue the development of the Stelladat recorder and a few former technicians of the old company took their chance with the old products maintenance.^{[citation needed]}

Notable Products[]

• 1954: Model 54
• 1957: Sm 0
• 1958: Sm 4 ( Fi Cord 1A in England)
• 1959: Fi-Cord 101 - Transistor dictaphone
• 1960: 5 Sm - Professional recorder for radio reporters
• 1969: SP 7 - Reel-to-reel recorder with exchangeable headblock. Nearly 2000 units built.
• 1972: 7 SQ - Quadraphonic version of the SP7
• 1975: SP 8 - Development of SP8. Sub models are SU 8, SR 8, SM 8 (a.k.a. master Stella), SI 8, SD 8th.
• 1979: 88 TD - Universal Studio Recorder
• 1984: 9 TD - Studio machine, development of TD88
• 1989: 9 SP - Further development of the SP8

See also[]

• Nagra
• Uher (brand)

References[]

• Roland Schellin: STELLAVOX Voice of the Stars - Die Stimme der Sterne, ISBN 3-936124-80-9.