Audio Aero

Osborn Loudspeakers are proud distributors of Audio Aero high end audio and video equipment. Please take time to browse the range and company information below. Osborn Loudspeakers uses Audio Aero equipment within its reference system, because only the very best will do.

Audio Aero no longer make Valve Amplifiers.

	Prestige CD, SACD.   New World's finest SACD player in 2 channel This player is dedicated to customers who want to focus on the audio aspect and are looking for a machine offering the best performance in digital and analog treatment for SACD and CDs. The Prestige SACD player offers the highest quality level and is intended to be the source in a top-of-the -range audio system.
	Capitole CD Player 24/192 Reference Exclusive 24 bit /192kHz inside re-sampler, subminiature tube output stage, digital input and remoted volume control. Built in Pre amp with 2 line and one balanced input.
	Capitole Classis CD Player 24/192 Reference Exclusive 24 bit /192kHz inside re-sampler, subminiature tube output stage, digital input but no remoted volume control orbuilt in pre amp. All new model with 70% new parts.
	Prima CD Player 24/192 kHz True 16 bit / 176.4kHz DAC, 4 times oversampling (176,4kHz), subminiature tube output stage with separated power supply.
	Prima Integrated Amplifier A 100 W hybrid integrated amplifier with remoted volume control A smooth sounding little powerhouse.

    
The Inner Ear Report / Canada / Vol. 12#3, 2000
Audio Aero Prestige Monoblocks by Earnie Fisher

"In the thirteen years of our existence, we have come accross quite a few really high-end designs we enjoyed, but the Audio Aero's are so special that a comparison with other amplifiers is pointless .... we believe that the AA's musical finesse is in a class of its own."

How I found audio perfection with Audio Aero.            

Whilst attending the Toronto Hi Fi Show in Canada in March 2000, we visited our dealer in Hamilton, Globe Audio. We set up a pair of Grand Monument References in their excellent sound room to give them an audition. My prejudices reared to the fore when they connected up their pride and joys, a set of Audio Aero Prestige Mono Blocks driven by the Audio Aero Capitole 24/192 CD Player with a single ended valve output stage and their Capitole pre Amp. I could not believe that a 40 watt, single ended design was going to do anything to the mighty Monuments. Here was a speaker linear to 15 Hz, with the most spectacular dynamic range in the business and so so revealing of whatever is driving them.   I decided to wait, so as not to offend them until I could connect something more suitable.

To say that I was stunned would be an understatement. A soundstage like I had never heard before opened in front of me. Every instrument separated cleanly from the others with an inky blackness around them. There was nothing between me and the music. Things were happening 60 feet behind the speakers in a way that made you think that you could run into the soundstage and grab them.

I then unplugged all this equipment and connected up my reference system which I knew intimately and was a truly exceptional system, although it has to be said, a lot cheaper. The soundstage shrank, instrument clouded, the hair on the back of my neck settled down. A slight veil which was extraordinary when completely removed, settled back over the music.

Then the unheard of happened. I ordered a Capitol 24/192 CD player after hearing only two tracks and arranged for the delivery of the Capitol Power Amplifier and Pre Amplifier. The budget baulked at the Prestige Monos, but they came after the CES in Vegas in January 2001. It was a mutual compliment that the Globe Audio staff were so impressed with the Monuments to recommend to Jean-Paul from Audio Aero, that they use them at the CES, which he readily agreed.. I am delighted to be associated with a company that really know what it is doing like this.

I have never liked a product so much that I decided to distribute it.

Our Room at Alexis Park Resort at the CES 2001

From left to right.
The 24/192 Capitole CD Player,
Greg Osborn, (Designer and Manufacturer, Osborn Loudspeakers)
Adrian VanDoorn, (designer of all the Audio Aero amplifiers and the analogue stages of the CD Players.)
Raoul Fernedez (One of the Digital Designers),
Jean-Paul Combelles (Manager of Audio Aero),
The Prestige Monoblocks at the rear and the Capitole Amplifier on the floor, and the mighty Grand Monument References.

Company history:

Created in 1997, AUDIO AERO is the high end audio equipment division of Mazères Aviation group, started 20 years ago. This group includes now 5 high-tech companies with main activities in aeronautics and racing industries.

The AUDIO AERO team is composed of music lovers, hence we developed a range of equipment with a special ability to reproduce very natural and involving sound.

To reach our goal, we had to avoid HiFi technological highways and find a different concept. Therefore, we turned towards a combined parallel triode/pentode, idea started in 1953 with great expectations (triode for musicality and pentode for power) but revealing to be a contradiction in itself, leading to relative low power and high distortion.

Now, after two years research, we realized the perfect match of these two tubes and are proud to announce a new power amplification concept called TRAC system meaning Tube Relay Amplification Concept. This configuration allows an exceptional musical reproduction, giving extraordinary realistic sound and soundstage.

This system is implemented in Prestige Monoblocks and Capitole Power Amp. On the cutting edge of high-end technologies, soon will be released a subminiature tube A/V processor featuring optional 24/192 STARS process and digital room correction, with an hybrid subminiature tube/DMOS 6x100W Audio/Video Power Amplifier.