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AKu Audio
Website:https://aku-audio.com/
Est. year: 2014
AKu Audio is a Greek loudspeaker company established in Athens in 2014. It was founded by George Kazantzis, a systems designer, who was later joined by his brother Kostas, a mechanical engineer, to form the core engineering team. The company designs and builds active and passive loudspeaker systems in-house and is one of the few high-end speaker makers operating from Greece.
Range & what it's known for
AKu Audio's range runs from the compact Mito and the wireless, omnidirectional Athena up to the flagship Enarghia. Between them sit the Talos, an active three-way floorstander with a 12 inch aluminium bass driver, two 7 inch paper and nylon fibre midrange units, a 1.34 inch beryllium dome tweeter and a separate six-channel amplifier delivering 2,200 W in total, and the Onar, an active standmount with two 9.5 inch TeXtreme woofers, an aluminium-magnesium dome tweeter and a built-in two-channel Hypex Ncore amplifier with DSP rated at 250 W per channel. The MaYa ii is a two-way active monitor for home or studio use, and the Perix system covers 2.1, 5.1 and 7.2 home theatre layouts. Cabinets are built from stacked 38 mm MDF plates with internal bracing and damping; the Talos uses tapered cylindrical closed chambers lined with rubber and aluminium and filled with sheep's wool.
Who owns it and where it's made
AKu Audio is a privately held company run by the Kazantzis brothers. Design, engineering and production all take place at its own facility in Athens, where the company has invested in CNC machining centres, lathes, laser cutters and 3D printers so that cabinets and metalwork can be made without relying on outside contractors. A showroom operates in Kifissia north of Athens.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers (6). The compact models cost about EUR 3,000 and the large active systems EUR 15,000, in both standmount and floorstanding form.
Who it's for
For a system where amplification and DSP are matched to the drivers by the manufacturer, AKu Audio offers active loudspeakers from a small European maker that builds everything itself. The Mito is the least expensive way in, the Onar adds active drive and DSP presets in a standmount, and the Talos and Enarghia are the models to grow into when the room is large. Owners of conventional passive systems who want to keep their existing amplifiers should check which AKu models are offered in passive form before choosing.
Range & what it's known for
AKu Audio's range runs from the compact Mito and the wireless, omnidirectional Athena up to the flagship Enarghia. Between them sit the Talos, an active three-way floorstander with a 12 inch aluminium bass driver, two 7 inch paper and nylon fibre midrange units, a 1.34 inch beryllium dome tweeter and a separate six-channel amplifier delivering 2,200 W in total, and the Onar, an active standmount with two 9.5 inch TeXtreme woofers, an aluminium-magnesium dome tweeter and a built-in two-channel Hypex Ncore amplifier with DSP rated at 250 W per channel. The MaYa ii is a two-way active monitor for home or studio use, and the Perix system covers 2.1, 5.1 and 7.2 home theatre layouts. Cabinets are built from stacked 38 mm MDF plates with internal bracing and damping; the Talos uses tapered cylindrical closed chambers lined with rubber and aluminium and filled with sheep's wool.
Who owns it and where it's made
AKu Audio is a privately held company run by the Kazantzis brothers. Design, engineering and production all take place at its own facility in Athens, where the company has invested in CNC machining centres, lathes, laser cutters and 3D printers so that cabinets and metalwork can be made without relying on outside contractors. A showroom operates in Kifissia north of Athens.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers (6). The compact models cost about EUR 3,000 and the large active systems EUR 15,000, in both standmount and floorstanding form.
Who it's for
For a system where amplification and DSP are matched to the drivers by the manufacturer, AKu Audio offers active loudspeakers from a small European maker that builds everything itself. The Mito is the least expensive way in, the Onar adds active drive and DSP presets in a standmount, and the Talos and Enarghia are the models to grow into when the room is large. Owners of conventional passive systems who want to keep their existing amplifiers should check which AKu models are offered in passive form before choosing.
