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Those who play, choose.

Decca Records masters the grand piano monitoring the recording with the Ars Aures Mini Sensorial. Steinway Artists, such as Maestro Sandro Russo, listen to recordings of their performances through our products. Classical recording studios use us for pre-master evaluation, and music academies to train the ear of their students. It is the professionals who validate our work, proving our choices right.

Reference monitor for grand piano mastering.

Decca Records uses Ars Aures Mini Sensorial speakers as reference monitor for grand piano mastering. It is the most difficult classical recording — seven octaves, enormous dynamics, microsecond attack — and the most severe test bench for a high-end speaker. Piano mastering sessions demand the same temporal phase coherence we look for in design: the fundamental note and its harmonics must reach the ear in the same instant. Much of the grand piano classical repertoire recorded over the past twenty years — Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Mendelssohn — has also passed through our Mini Sensorial.

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Four professional voices.

The piano breathes as it does live

Sandro RussoSteinway Artist — musical endorser

Temporal coherence rare in audio

Roberto ProssedaPianist — musical endorser

Classical guitar asks for silence between notes

Francesco BuzzurroGuitarist — Concerto Teatro di Mazara del Vallo

The voice, before the arrangement

Ninni AriniSinger-songwriter

Awards

Awards and editorial coverage.

  1. 2005

    Blue Note Award · Mini Sensorial

    Enjoy the Music, New York. Review by Rick Jensen. The Mini Sensorial is awarded as one of the year's most revealing speakers for piano and chamber music.

  2. 2006

    Best of Show · NY Audio Show

    Best of Show at the New York Audio Show, editorial coverage on 6moons audio. The second international recognition bringing Ars Aures to the attention of the specialist press overseas.

  3. 2015

    Best Speaker · Enjoy the Music

    Best Speaker of the year on Enjoy the Music. The American editorial presence continues, with a focus on the evolution of the Sensorial line.

  4. 2018

    Estasi on Mono & Stereo

    Matej Isak publishes the long-form review of Estasi on Mono & Stereo. The first in-depth technical review of the flagship with dual-cavity transmission line.

Publications

Written about us.

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