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MBL chief engineer Jürgen Reis leaves after 42 years
Jürgen Reis has left MBL after 42 years as the company’s chief engineer. Stereophile’s 3 June 2026 coverage identifies Reis as the engineer who turned the Radialstrahler speaker concept into a viable product. The same report frames the move as part of wider personnel change in high-end audio, but the supplied evidence supports only limited detail beyond Reis’s departure.
Georg S. Kuklick
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Jürgen Reis has left MBL after 42 years as the company’s chief engineer. The move removes a long-serving engineering figure from a brand closely associated with the Radialstrahler loudspeaker. Stereophile’s 3 June 2026 coverage identifies Reis as the person who developed the core Radialstrahler idea into a viable product.
The reported departure comes during MBL’s transition from MBL Akustikgeräte to MBL International. In an email to Stereophile, Reis wrote that the transition “does go differently to what I would like to see or would / can support.” He also described different views regarding the company’s legacy and future direction.
Reis’s 42-year tenure places the departure in the category of company news rather than a product update. The supplied evidence links him directly to MBL’s best-known loudspeaker technology, but it does not support new product, pricing, distribution or ownership detail for publication. The clearest confirmed point is that a central engineering figure has moved on from MBL.
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