František Križanovič
Since my student days I have been interested in good music. Like perhaps every young person who grew up in the 1970s, I started out listening to pop and rock music. At that time the possibilities of playing music on hifi components were very limited. Perhaps in those days you couldn’t even talk about audio components, but I would rather characterize it as devices that somehow played music. There was no musical miracle. We were glad it played at all.
Gradually, as the years went by, my audio component lineups changed in direct proportion to the changing genres of music I enjoyed. Gradually I moved from pop and rock to jazz and classical music. I was also inclined to folk music to a considerable extent. However, I have never worked my way up to the so-called. high end.
It’s always just been a hifi category. I currently own a TESLA NC 470 turntable that I have had since 1983. It has undergone a slight tuning during this period and is fitted with an Ortofon OM 10 pickup. It is connected via a Schiit Mani preamplifier to an integrated amplifier from BV audio A 300 S designed and manufactured by Mr. Bunta. I play CDs through a Creek Evolution CD 50 CD player. This set-up is completed with a three-way F3ROY column-mounted loudspeaker array from BV audio. I have tried many types of signal and speaker cables from different manufacturers (e.g. X Symphony, Audioquest, etc.) to connect the setup. The prices of individual cables ranged from 50€ to 1300€. But sonically it still wasn’t that great. Until one day, a friend brought me a strange prism with a mains plug. It’s an AAI product. After plugging it into the socket, the sound cleared up and brightened. It amazed me in a good way. I got an even bigger shock when the guys from AAI wired me up with Grandioso signal, speaker and power cables of their own design. So it was a real shock for me. Up until now, I had an Audioquest Rockefeler speaker cable hooked up with an AAI Grandioso signal cable. There has been a tremendous change in the quality of the sound reproduced. The sound has been “cleaned”, brightened, the instruments and vocals have changed colour more to the reality of the real sound, previously hidden details in the recordings have been revealed. Musicians and musical instruments are now wedged exactly in place. The sound space has both widened and deepened and has gained in volume. Reverberations of instruments have been discovered and flaws of beauty, which were caused by the musicians’ mistakes during the recording of the songs, have been revealed.
But absolute satisfaction was still to come. It came about the moment the guys put their mains filter in my chain. There was nothing more to add here. A b s o l u t i o n a l satisfaction has come to me. My music setup, which was somewhere on the borderline of higher hifi with music reproduction, has moved up at least two notches in the imaginary ladder in the quality of reproduced sound. Thanks to AAI’s complete recabling, I got music reproduction of a quality I had never dreamed of before.
PS: I’ll come back to my old turntable. Despite the fact that I didn’t change any cabling on it, the sound changed markedly to a greater reality. You wouldn’t believe the impact that AAI products have had on the components that are part of the audio chain as well, with no change in the hardware.
This way I also want to express my gratitude to the guys from AAI who were willing to advise, whether with professional advice or on the spot installation of products without the need for deposits and similar tricks that other sellers apply.
I wish the entire AAI team every success in the development and application of their products on the market.
