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Auris Audio

Auris Audio

Website:https://aurisaudio.rs/

Est. year: 2013

Auris Audio is a Serbian maker of vacuum tube amplifiers, officially founded in 2013 by Milomir Trosic and named after the Latin word for ear. The company is best known for tube headphone amplifiers finished in natural wood and polished metal, and it also builds tube electronics and speakers for two-channel systems. Trosic had built amplifiers for himself and friends since the early 1980s, when he worked as a DJ at a local radio station, so the brand rests on three decades of hands-on work before it took its current name.

Range & what it's known for

The headphone line started with the HA-2SE, the company's first headphone product, and grew with the Nirvana, the Headonia and the Euterpe. The Headonia is offered in versions built around 2A3 or 300B triodes, which places it among the larger headphone amplifiers on the market in size and output stage. Alongside the headphone units Auris makes integrated amplifiers and other stereo electronics in the same visual style, with hand-wired construction, exposed tubes and wooden side panels or bases. Each product is treated as a furniture-grade object as well as an amplifier, and finishes are part of the design brief from the start.

Who owns it and where it's made

Auris Audio is a private, founder-led company. Milomir Trosic kept building speakers, concert sound systems and amplifiers through the 1990s, during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the experience from that period fed into the brand. Design and assembly take place in Serbia, where the amplifiers are built by hand in small runs before being shipped to distributors abroad.

The lineup in this catalog

Tube amplifiers (17). The least costly Auris unit is about EUR 3,000, and the most elaborate pieces pass EUR 30,000.

Who it's for

Owners of high-end headphones looking for a tube amplifier that also works as a decorative object in the room are the core Auris buyers, along with stereo listeners after the same aesthetic for loudspeakers. The HA-2SE is the usual first step into the brand, the Euterpe and Nirvana sit in the middle, and the Headonia with its triode output stage is the upgrade for buyers who want the biggest headphone amplifier Auris makes. It is a choice for people who accept the care and warm-up that tube equipment needs.