The top of a Metaxas & Sins Solitaire amplifier in metallic blue: two round meters between four silver knobs, close

Metaxas & Sins

Amplifiers, tape recorders and loudspeakers, hand-made in the Netherlands by Kostas Metaxas and his sons; the company founded at the beginning of the 1980s.

The maker

High-end audio sculptures

A Metaxas & Sins Tourbillon T-RX tape recorder from above: two black reels with red hubs on a silver chassis, on white
Tourbillon T-RX

Metaxas & Sins, founded by Kostas Metaxas, is renowned for creating “high-end audio sculptures” and “kinetic art objects” — not merely hi-fi. Furthermore, Kostas is also a prolific recording engineer who’s made hundreds of live concert recordings using magnetic open-reel tape.

Metaxas & Sins is based in the Netherlands, where Kostas and his sons carefully hand-make these pieces of sonic art. Kostas is a renowned artist and product designer whose collaborations with respected luxury brands stretch well beyond audio equipment – pens, clocks and much more.

With this objective in mind, Kostas founded his company at the beginning of the 1980s, and it has been committed to the highest electronics and constructive technologies since its inception, in order to offer what he defines as “the best sound equipment that money can buy.”

Metaxas & Sins

Data source: metaxas.com

A Tourbillon T-RX tape recorder with two reels on a black plinth, a row of silver amplifiers on a rack behind it

Tape recorder

Tourbillon

In horology, a tourbillon (French: “whirlwind”) is an addition to the mechanics of a watch lever escapement to increase accuracy. The Metaxas & Sins T-RX Analog Tape Reproducer is the first Tape Recorder to use the same concept to absolutely regulate the speed of the tape through the use of an ARM-CORTEX “controller”.

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