Private company
Stellavox
Swiss audio equipment manufacturer
Stellavox is a company based in Switzerland best known for its compact portable reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recorders of extremely high mechanical quality, used by radio and TV-stations and motion picture location sound mixers as an alternative to the Nagra recorders. The company, founded in 1955 by Georges Quellet, was 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 and has become a legend.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryelectronics industry, instrumentation engineering1
- HeadquartersHauterive1
- Legal formAktiengesellschaft1
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Stellavox is a company based in Switzerland best known for its compact portable reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recorders of extremely high mechanical quality, used by radio and TV-stations and motion picture location sound mixers as an alternative to the Nagra recorders. The company, founded in 1955 by Georges Quellet, was 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 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.2
Products and brands
- reel-to-reel audio tape recorder
Listed on Wikidata.1
1954: Model 54
1956: Model 56
1957: Sm 0
1958: Sm 4 ( Fi Cord 1A in England)
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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
2020:”10” L - Improved input-output module for TD9
From Wikipedia’s article on Stellavox, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Timeline
- 1955Founded Founded1
Links
- WikipediaStellavox
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- WikidataQ2342231
Sources
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