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Audel
Website:https://www.audel.it/
Est. year: 2008
Audel is a small Italian loudspeaker maker founded in 2007 by the architect and designer Walter Carzan and based in Casteldaccia, near Palermo in Sicily. It trades as Audel di Walter Carzan, a one-owner workshop that designs and builds its speakers on site, and it is one of the few loudspeaker brands working from Sicily rather than from the industrial north of the country.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog is arranged in three collections. The Classic collection holds the Magika Plus, the Malika Plus mk2 and the Symphonika Plus, the AudelTrend collection covers the Nika mk3, the Sonika mk4, the Sonika mk4 SE and the Sonika Tower, and the Monitor collection is the U-Basik 5/8. The Nika is a three-litre desktop speaker with a 3-inch full-range driver loaded by a transmission line, sold at EUR 990 a pair, and it anchors a desktop system with the U-DAC, a converter built around an ESS ES9038Q2M chip and an Amanero USB interface for PCM to 32-bit / 384 kHz and DSD512 at EUR 690, and the U-AMP, a 50-watt Class D integrated amplifier at EUR 640. The Sonika mk4 pairs a 26 mm soft-dome tweeter with a 4-inch woofer in a 26.5 x 15.5 x 25.2 cm cabinet and costs EUR 2,190 a pair. Every cabinet is built on the patented Internal Rib System, a ribbed structure formed by stacking birch plywood panels cut on numerically controlled mills to stiffen the box and limit standing waves, and the top models use Duelund capacitors in the crossovers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Audel is privately owned by its founder Walter Carzan, who leads the design team and runs the company from Via E. Alliata in Casteldaccia. Cabinets are cut and assembled there from birch plywood with ebony or walnut fronts and beeswax-finished surfaces, and the Nika is also offered in walnut burr and Art Mosaic finishes. The company sells direct in Italy and through importers in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Japan.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers and matching desktop components (3). Prices sit between EUR 640 for the U-AMP and EUR 990 for the Nika speakers, with the Sonika mk4 at EUR 2,190 above them.
Who it's for
For a small room or a desk, Audel offers a hand-built Italian speaker to a buyer who cares about a visible plywood cabinet as much as about the drivers. The Nika with the U-DAC and U-AMP is the entry system for a computer or near-field setup, the Sonika mk4 is the first step toward the larger Classic models, and the Sonika Tower, Magika Plus and Symphonika Plus continue the path for a proper listening room.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog is arranged in three collections. The Classic collection holds the Magika Plus, the Malika Plus mk2 and the Symphonika Plus, the AudelTrend collection covers the Nika mk3, the Sonika mk4, the Sonika mk4 SE and the Sonika Tower, and the Monitor collection is the U-Basik 5/8. The Nika is a three-litre desktop speaker with a 3-inch full-range driver loaded by a transmission line, sold at EUR 990 a pair, and it anchors a desktop system with the U-DAC, a converter built around an ESS ES9038Q2M chip and an Amanero USB interface for PCM to 32-bit / 384 kHz and DSD512 at EUR 690, and the U-AMP, a 50-watt Class D integrated amplifier at EUR 640. The Sonika mk4 pairs a 26 mm soft-dome tweeter with a 4-inch woofer in a 26.5 x 15.5 x 25.2 cm cabinet and costs EUR 2,190 a pair. Every cabinet is built on the patented Internal Rib System, a ribbed structure formed by stacking birch plywood panels cut on numerically controlled mills to stiffen the box and limit standing waves, and the top models use Duelund capacitors in the crossovers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Audel is privately owned by its founder Walter Carzan, who leads the design team and runs the company from Via E. Alliata in Casteldaccia. Cabinets are cut and assembled there from birch plywood with ebony or walnut fronts and beeswax-finished surfaces, and the Nika is also offered in walnut burr and Art Mosaic finishes. The company sells direct in Italy and through importers in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Japan.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers and matching desktop components (3). Prices sit between EUR 640 for the U-AMP and EUR 990 for the Nika speakers, with the Sonika mk4 at EUR 2,190 above them.
Who it's for
For a small room or a desk, Audel offers a hand-built Italian speaker to a buyer who cares about a visible plywood cabinet as much as about the drivers. The Nika with the U-DAC and U-AMP is the entry system for a computer or near-field setup, the Sonika mk4 is the first step toward the larger Classic models, and the Sonika Tower, Magika Plus and Symphonika Plus continue the path for a proper listening room.
