Stax

Stax Ltd is a Japanese company that manufactures high-end audio equipment. Stax is best known for its electrostatic and electret headphones, which they call earspeakers. Electrostatic headphones work similarly to electrostatic loudspeakers, but on a smaller scale. In December 2011, Chinese audio equipment company Edifier announced that it had acquired 100% of Stax’s equity.

Stax was founded in 1938. Twenty-two years later, in 1960, Stax launched its first electrostatic loudspeaker, the Stax SR-1. Over the next thirty-six years, Stax manufactured a wide variety of amplification products, loudspeakers, tonometers, CD players, DACs, phono cartridges and loudspeakers. In 1995, fifty-seven years after its founding, the company became insolvent. The company was revived in 1996 as the new company STAX.

Products

As of June 2020, the current Stax product line consists of seven electrostatic loudspeakers, seven electrostatic amplifiers, and accessories for these products, including extension cables and a headphone stand.