Rethm is a relatively young audio equipment design and manufacturing company started in 1998 by an audiophile music-lover who is an architect by profession. Having failed in his search for "soul-satisfying" loudspeakers – at real world prices – his innovative instincts (and training) convinced him that he had an opportunity here: to create something special by "thinking out of the box" (!). Having been trained as a violinist in his younger days and having played with his school orchestra, he also had a very clear understanding of the timbre and dynamics of instruments at close quarters. He was joined in this endeavor by an architect friend who very generously agreed to invest in the project as he believed we would bring to market a truly world class product.

Given their connections with India, manufacturing was set up offshore so that they could bring to the music-lover a series of components that were extremely high quality but bereft of the stratospheric prices that normally accompany high-end audio components.

Rethm launched its first loudspeaker, the 2nd Rethm, in January 2000, at THE SHOW/ CES at Las Vegas. It launched its second model, the 3rd Rethm, at Home Entertainment 2002, in New York, and subsequently came out with the 4th Rethm and 5th Rethm in 2003 and 2005 respectively.

While this line of pure full range single driver loudspeakers earned several positive reviews, they were refusing to become a commercial success. Much soul searching and lots of constructive feed back pointed to one fundamental shortcoming: a lack of bass.

The designer decided to scrap the existing line, and re-invented the speaker to address this criticism. The new line was launched in January 2007 with 2 models: the Saadhana, and followed a year later by the Maarga.

However, in early 2010, we decided to do something we had identified a couple of years earlier. And that was: that to realize Rethms true potential, we would have to design our own wide-band drivers as the Lowthers were a compromise that we lived with by "tweaking them". And with this decision, Rethm went through its most difficult challenge, and most radical change.

However -- our own custom drivers lifted the Rethms to a new level entirely.

Architects, being designers – are driven to improve anything they see. " I have a better solution to this problem"…….. is a standard refrain that can be heard around the best of them.

The Rethm designers therefore next set their sights on looking with fresh eyes at several other products in the Audio chain….. and we now have 2 rack systems, a set of cables, and Amplifiers.