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Audio Analogue
Website:https://www.audioanalogue.com/en
Est. year: 1995
Audio Analogue is an Italian maker of stereo electronics from Monsummano Terme in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, active since 1995. It became known through the Puccini, a 40-watt integrated amplifier shown as a prototype at CES in Las Vegas in January 1996 and put into production that summer, and it has named most of its products after Italian composers ever since. Today the company is a small firm trading as AF Group SRL, with amplifiers, a CD transport, a DAC and a phono stage in the range.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog is arranged in three lines. PureAA is the entry level and includes the AAdrive CD transport, built around a TEAC CD5020A mechanism, plus the AAphono MM/MC phono preamplifier with adjustable impedance and capacitance. The Anniversary line reworks the historic models with current parts, so the Puccini Anniversary, Maestro Anniversary, Maestro 2.0, Maestro RR and the Donizetti Anniversary power amplifier carry the composer names of the 1990s catalog. ABsolute is the reference line at the top, headed by the ABsolute integrated amplifier. The house topology across the Anniversary and ABsolute models is a fully balanced signal path with zero global feedback in every stage. The Maestro Anniversary, for example, is rated at 150 watts into 8 ohms, 300 into 4 and 500 into 2, and the Donizetti Anniversary at 2 x 500 watts into 4 ohms. The Anniversary and ABsolute units carry an Airtech design credit, and Airtech cables and loudspeakers are sold alongside.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company began as a group of hi-fi and electronics professionals rather than a single founder, with Claudio Bertini as chief designer from the early years. It is now run as AF Group SRL on Via Cesare Battisti in Monsummano Terme, privately owned and not part of any larger group. Design, final assembly and packaging take place in Tuscany, with board soldering subcontracted to local suppliers and the finished product declared Made in Italy.
The lineup in this catalog
Amplifiers, CD transports and DACs (8). Prices start near EUR 2,000 for the cheapest units and climb past EUR 40,000 for the ABsolute-series monoblocks.
Who it's for
Audio Analogue is aimed at a system built on Italian-made solid-state electronics, for an owner who prefers a feedback-free design to a high-power switching one. The AAdrive and AAphono are a low-cost way into the brand, the Puccini Anniversary is the natural first amplifier, and the path then leads through the Maestro models to the Donizetti power amplifier and the ABsolute line for large speakers and big rooms.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog is arranged in three lines. PureAA is the entry level and includes the AAdrive CD transport, built around a TEAC CD5020A mechanism, plus the AAphono MM/MC phono preamplifier with adjustable impedance and capacitance. The Anniversary line reworks the historic models with current parts, so the Puccini Anniversary, Maestro Anniversary, Maestro 2.0, Maestro RR and the Donizetti Anniversary power amplifier carry the composer names of the 1990s catalog. ABsolute is the reference line at the top, headed by the ABsolute integrated amplifier. The house topology across the Anniversary and ABsolute models is a fully balanced signal path with zero global feedback in every stage. The Maestro Anniversary, for example, is rated at 150 watts into 8 ohms, 300 into 4 and 500 into 2, and the Donizetti Anniversary at 2 x 500 watts into 4 ohms. The Anniversary and ABsolute units carry an Airtech design credit, and Airtech cables and loudspeakers are sold alongside.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company began as a group of hi-fi and electronics professionals rather than a single founder, with Claudio Bertini as chief designer from the early years. It is now run as AF Group SRL on Via Cesare Battisti in Monsummano Terme, privately owned and not part of any larger group. Design, final assembly and packaging take place in Tuscany, with board soldering subcontracted to local suppliers and the finished product declared Made in Italy.
The lineup in this catalog
Amplifiers, CD transports and DACs (8). Prices start near EUR 2,000 for the cheapest units and climb past EUR 40,000 for the ABsolute-series monoblocks.
Who it's for
Audio Analogue is aimed at a system built on Italian-made solid-state electronics, for an owner who prefers a feedback-free design to a high-power switching one. The AAdrive and AAphono are a low-cost way into the brand, the Puccini Anniversary is the natural first amplifier, and the path then leads through the Maestro models to the Donizetti power amplifier and the ABsolute line for large speakers and big rooms.
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- Integrated amplifiers
- CD / SACD players and transports
- DACs
- Power amplifiers mono
- Power amplifiers stereo
- Preamplifiers
