Stax can pertain to Stax the company, or Stax Records. StAX is also an acronym for Streaming API for XML.

For Stax Records, see Stax Records

Stax the company: Stax Ltd. is a Japanese company that makes high end audio equipment. Stax is best known for their electrostatic and electret headphones, called "ear speakers." Electrostatic headphones work just like electrostatic speakers , yet on a smaller scale. To reduce costs, Stax made a line of Electret headphones, which are often confused for their better known electrostatic headphones, but which work on a different principle.

StAX: JSR 173 - Streaming API for XML The Streaming API for XML (StAX) is a Java based API for pull-parsing XML.

Internal Links

• electrostatic, electret
• electrostatic speakers
• high end audio
• audiophile

External Links

• Stax Japanese Web Site- English
• Web site of Stax' US Importer
• JSR-173