Revival Audio

Every so often a great new company explodes onto the market, and that company of the moment is French speaker manufacturer Revival Audio. Yes, the last thing this industry needed was another speaker brand, but when a brand makes an impact on us like this one has, after only 18 months since inception and with only two models, we are happy to make an exception.

While Revival Audio was only launched in 2021, the people behind the company have a solid background in the industry. Co-founder Daniel Emonts has spent time with Altec Lansing and Focal-JM Lab, and his most recent role was as a senior R&D engineer at Dynaudio. His partner, Jacky Lee, also worked for Dynaudio, as Chief Commercial Officer for five years.

Revival Audio has gone right back to the roots of speaker manufacturing, deciding to design and build all of the essential components used in their loudspeakers.

The usual pathway for most speaker manufacturers — particularly start-ups — is to select what they consider to be the most appropriate drivers available from the plethora of specialist manufacturers, and then work out how to best put them together in a box to produce their desired results. This approach sometimes reaps excellent results. Serhan Swift took two off-the-shelf