Generations of hands-on knowledge, in every product
Electro-Voice is one of the few audio companies that designs all of its core components in-house — enclosures, waveguides and drivers. That philosophy runs deep: the company began in 1927 as Radio Engineers, a small service shop in South Bend, Indiana, run by Lou Burroughs and Al Kahn.
Nearly a century of listening, testing and touring later, that same in-house approach shapes everything from studio microphones to stadium arrays.
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Nearly one hundred years, in six moments.
The story, era by era
Six decades-spanning chapters, from a radio bench in Indiana to stadium bowls on five continents.
Lou Burroughs and Al Kahn open a radio service business in South Bend, Indiana. When they build a public-address system for Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, the system picks up a nickname — his 'electric voice' — and the young company takes it as its name: Electro-Voice.
From its home in Buchanan, Michigan, Electro-Voice builds a reputation for microphones that refuse to die. The Model 664 dynamic earns the nickname 'the Buchanan Hammer' after demonstrations that involved driving nails with it — a durability philosophy that still governs how EV road gear is engineered.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the Electro-Voice 642 Cardiline shotgun microphone for advancing sound pickup in film, radio and television — sharply reducing noise and distance effects. It is the first award of its kind given to a microphone in 22 years.
The RE20 Variable-D dynamic becomes the voice of broadcast — a favorite of radio hosts and voice-over studios for its flat response and freedom from bass-boosting proximity effect. Decades on, it remains a first-call studio microphone.
Electro-Voice remains one of the few companies designing enclosures, waveguides and drivers entirely in-house. More than one million ZLX loudspeakers have shipped since 2013; EVERSE brings pro sound anywhere a battery can go; and installations like the 85,000-capacity Estadio Más Monumental in Buenos Aires carry the same engineering to the world's biggest crowds. Electro-Voice and Dynacord are part of the Keenfinity family of brands.
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