About Us
We are a company dedicated to the design, research, and development of high-end audio products, based in Leidschendam, the Netherlands, since 2008.
We are committed to the pursuit of absolute sound, leveraging a wide range of amplification technologies. Our innovation includes our propietary “AD class” amplifiers, built on our exclusive EPAM modules, the result of an R&D collaboration between two companies with extensive experience in Class D, based in Denmark and the Netherlands. Through advanced refinement of this highly efficient technology, we have successfully adapted it to meet the demands of the most discerning audiophiles, combining our passion for merging classic and modern technologies and integrating the best of both worlds: analog and digital. The result is an amplification system that preserves the warmth, naturalness, and harmonic richness of analog sound while maximizing the efficiency and precision of digital amplification.
In 2008, we asked ourselves several questions: Can we create a new class of power amplification that is faithful in reproduction, high in power, more energy-efficient, does not lose quality, and does not generate high temperatures? Can we develop an eco-friendly high-end audio brand, committed to the environment, and offer true sonic value in our creations? Can we push the established boundaries of electronics with electro-ionic tubes, transistors, and more?
AD Class amplification is here to stay; our users worldwide praise and enjoy this innovative technology applied to high-end audio systems. Its implementation delivers speed, transparency, and a powerful impact in the lower frequencies, along with multiple sonic and energy-efficiency benefits. Thanks to meticulous engineering, AD Class provides an immersive, fatigue-free listening experience, maintaining the tonal purity and dynamics that audiophiles seek in a reference system.
Additionally, we offer other meticulously designed products in pure Class A and Class AB, but with an efficient and distinctive electronic design approach, presented in our prestigious Origin and Reference lines. This comprehensive approach allows us to meet the expectations of the most demanding audiophiles, offering uncompromising fidelity and performance at every stage of the process, from decoding and preamplification to final amplification.
Extraudio products are unique and exclusive, handmade, durable, and beautiful works of art for audiophiles. Our amplifiers combine vacuum tubes with solid-state transistors, as we do not advocate any particular technology but prefer an alchemical blend of both to achieve our goal: extremely high-fidelity reproduction and completely flat frequency response down to 1 MHz.
Our product line consists of analog and digital sources, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, integrated amplifiers, turntable preamplifiers, DACs, modules, and accessories, as well as 3 lines of handmade cables, the Extraudio Artisan cables. Additionally, we are constantly working on research to create even more efficient and intelligent products in the future.
We are passionate about analog sound and the sound of live music; we are obsessed with quality and attention to detail in our products; we care about the beauty and purity of music reproduction. Above all, we do not make the same mistake as other manufacturers whose products focus on aesthetic, scientific/technological, and economic considerations, leaving aside what is truly important: the music and the end user, the music lover or audiophile.
Design, research and development, ease of functionality and careful craftsmanship combine to allow us to create unique and exclusive high-end audio products that preserve the music.
Extraudio was born as a logical result of our devotion to music and our professional experience as specialists in professional audio, video, and broadcasting. It is also the result of more than 14 years of research and development dedicated to achieving a product that until now was not on the market.
Our multidisciplinary team is made up of engineers, programmers, musicians, industrial designers, and audiophiles who have worked together to create the Extraudio experience, which goes far beyond the boundaries of high-end audio.
We have been working with thermionic valves since the 80s. We have repaired, distributed, and imported high-end audio products; we have broadcasted major musical events; we have created professional recording, radio, TV, and video studios. We have also managed to revive the memory of those musical notes, sounds, sensations, instruments, and voices buried in our auditory memory, managing to remember them again with Extraudio products.
This is what drove us to create the philosophy that underlies all our brand’s products: “Extraudio; authentic, honest, and sincere sound.”
We have created beautifully minimalist, highly efficient products designed without compromise or cutting corners on cost or electronics. They are manufactured in short runs to pay attention to every detail and avoid planned obsolescence.
We ensure that not a single nuance or detail of the musical compositions is lost and that the listener can perceive the full reality and all the sensations, subtleties, and micro dynamics of the recorded music, as well as the correct timbre of all instruments. The amplification products seamlessly reproduce large orchestral masses with no lack of energy and flat frequency response.
“Extraudio; what is in the original recording is what you hear.”
The exterior or industrial design is inspired by Mr. Dieter Rams, a key figure in the renaissance of German Functionalism design and rationalism.
So, it is worth noting that our design is very much in line with Mr. Rams and his famous paradigm “Less but better execution.”
Extraudio™ is a registered trademark – All rights reserved – Netherlands.
Extraudio products are both unique and exclusive, hand-made and long-lasting, beautiful works of art for audiophiles.