TechDAS

TechDAS

Hideaki Nishikawa’s Founders history

1963 Obtained a degree in mechanical engineering.

1964 Joined Stax Ltd. as an engineer and engaged mainly in manufacturing engineering, development of electrostatic headphones, etc.

1973 Moved on from Stax and founded an OEM together with a few members from Stax. The OEM was set up to design and manufacture audio products.

The representative products for this company were Micro Seiki’s electrostatic headphones, Infiniti’s Black Widow, Craft AC 300 Tone Arm, among others.

1980 Joined Micro Seiki Co. Ltd. Held a position of manager of the technical department and later as Sound Business Director.

The statement product planned and designed from this period is the SX-8000 system turntable. Also developed a line of accompanying products.

1989 Founded Stellavox Japan Inc. together with Yasuo Nakanishi, who was the CEO of RF Enterprises Inc. Started the import & distribution business of high-end audio equipment with dedicated force. The company name was changed to Stella Inc. in June, 2012.

1994 Became CEO of Stellavox Japan Inc. (current Stella Inc.).

2010 Founded the house brand, TechDAS, which has been offering the Air Force analogue turntables