Revox B-225
(1984 - 1986)

In true early 1980s fashion, with its drawn out blocks, shaped buttons and exorbitant pricetag !

Quick and easy to service - Revox ain't Studer for nothing. The board shown below is the D/A, adorned with a pair of TDA-1540 D/A chips.

As all serious players in the years that were to come, the Revox B 225 was separated in three : servo & power supplies / drive / audio boards. In fact, if you put the cards horizontally, the B-225 looks pretty similar to a 7 series Sony player (or an Accuphase, or etc). Even the base of the mechanism is similarily built!


Below accessible is the CDP prototype, shown in march 1983 at the HiFi Salon of Paris. Much closer to the design of the then current lineup at Revox and with a slim drawer instead of the whole mechanical assembly being the tray.

I do not know if this prototype already used it, but the production model sported the MASSIVE Philips CDM-1, as did all the Studer and Revox CD players which were all strictly Philips-based - luckily for the owners.