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Roksan is a British manufacturer of high fidelity audio products for domestic use, based in North West London, United Kingdom. It is best known for its influential and innovative design for hi-fi equipment, and in particular its Xerxes platform for playing LP records.〔Dudley, Art (May 15, 2010). ("Roksan Kandy K2 integrated amplifier" ). ''Stereophile''〕 == The company == Roksan Audio Ltd. was formed in 1985 by Tufan Hashemi〔("Tufan Hashemi of Roksan Audio" ), Hi-fi Pig, 19 January 2013〕 & Touraj Moghaddam, graduates of the University of London, Imperial College London & Queen Mary College. The company's first product was launched at a hi-fi show in London in 1985.〔Harris, Steve (4 March 2008). ("Steady as a Roksan" ). ''Hi-fi News & Record Review'', June 2008 issue.〕 The name Roksan itself is derived from the name of Roksana, daughter of the Persian King Darius. This closely reflects the Persian heritage and roots of both Hashemi and Moghaddam. Not surprisingly many of Roksan's product names have references to names of cities, places and famous people of Persia (now Iran).〔Stemmelin, Pierre (25 january 2013) ("Roksan Xerxes 20 Plus : l'autre platine vinyle de référence... depuis 1985" ). ''On Mag''〕 Moghaddam, having then just obtained his PhD at Imperial College, became dissatisfied with the state of the audio arts when he heard his little TV set more musically satisfying than his already high-end Linn/Naim tri-amped audio system, and began experimentation. He deduced that where the existing turntable design failed was that the cartridge must be held still wherever the groove goes, and thus the mean line traced by the groove relative to the body of the cartridge needed to be constant.〔 His ideas led him away from using the sprung sub-chassis as part of the speed-controlling system. Moghaddam built a prototype using a fire door. Hashemi, a friend who had heard the new prototype turntable and wanted one, teamed up to start the company.〔 The Darius loudspeaker design, based on the re-examination of the relationship between and magnitudes of movements of the tweeter and the woofer, was already in prototype. The concept stunned the trade when it was demonstrated at the 1985 hi-fi show where the Xerxes was launched.〔 In 1996, the company was acquired by Verity plc, a hi-fi group that owned the Mission, Wharfedale and Quad brands. But when Verity demerged around two years later to concentrate on flat-panel speaker technology, Hashemi and Moghaddam reacquired their company.〔 According to public records, Touraj Moghaddam resigned his directorships of Roksan on 15 July 2011.〔(Touraj Moghaddam )〕〔Sircom, Alan (2 July 2013). ("Roksan Xerxes.20Plus Turntable System" ). ''Hi-Fi+''. Archived from (the original ) on 11 July 2013.〕 He remains at Vertere Acoustics, where he focuses his efforts on cables.〔("The sound of science" ). ''The New Europe'' October–November 2011, pp.190–191 (Courtesy link)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roksan Audio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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