Welcome to Airt
Think of us as your personal advisors – enthusiastic experts, passionate about the world of high-end audio, providing you with our objective advice in a complex marketplace.
We believe our mission is to introduce you to the brands and products we work with, and to share with you what it is about them that so excites us.
Everything we do is geared towards delivering a truer musical experience.
Hence our brand line: ‘where music comes first’.
How do we achieve our goal?
Firstly, the faithful communication of sound demands an investment in time and energy if it is to engage fully with the heart as well as the head.
So we set out to explain in words and imagery what impresses us about the performance and the aesthetic quality of the equipment we recommend. Hopefully, you’ll grasp why it has earned our admiration and led us to throw behind it the weight of our formidable experience in the field.
Then we’ll aim to consolidate your initial interest by demonstrating how the system’s specifications translate into music (which is, after all, the emotional benefit of all great audio science and design).
In short, we’re here to make sure that you invest wisely in your hifi so that you enjoy fully that deep, emotional response that is the true purpose of all music.
The importance of lowering the noise floor
Reducing unwanted noise or interference has been the key to many of the greatest and most worthwhile advances in audio performance over the last decade, better connecting us with our music and the musicians who are creating it, in both the analogue and digital domains. Squeezing ever greater performance by lowering the intrinsic noise floor in any given product, in conjunction with the other products in the chain, rather than purely trying to produce more and more information at the expense of balance and naturalness – this is a far more complex subject than at first it might seem.
Our brands
Acustica Applicata
Acustica Applicata was established in 1992 by a group of audiophiles. They design and build modular “acoustic traps” for low and medium frequencies. They also develop software for the analysis of reproduced sound quality.
Avalon Acoustics
Avalon Acoustics is an idealistic group of musicians, artists, craftsmen, and engineers. Their experience ranges from playing and performance through recording, editing, mastering and playback.
Entreq
Entreq’s founder and chief designer, Per Olof, combined his skill as an audio alchemist with his empathetic understanding of nature to evolve the principle of Grounding – the elimination of extraneous noise in sound reproduction through the use of naturally compatible materials.
Gold Note
It is the city of Florence, that historic pinnacle of achievement in art and science, which provided the inspiration for Gold Note’s creation of world-beating audio systems. Says Maurizio Aterini, ‘We strive to emulate a fusion of past and future’ – the meticulous craftsmanship associated with Renaissance Italy, and the technical sophistication of the most recent advances in audio engineering.
Kalista
Kalista creates hi-fi as works of art. The unique tripod design of the DreamPlay collection is distinct and eye-catching making the look of each product as breathtaking as the sound they produce.
Each product is handcrafted in France and rigorously quality tested at every stage of design and build by audiophiles with decades of experience. These incredible products need to be both seen and heard to be believed.
Métronome
Since 1987, Métronome has been leading the charge for high-resolution audio reproduction. Started by a group of true audiophiles in the countryside of Southern France, over the years they have handcrafted exceptional equipment that focuses on getting the very best from recorded audio, whatever its format.
QSA
This range of small but mighty fuses and outlets play an integral part in our ongoing mission to lower the noise floor in your audio system. Experiencing the difference a QSA fuse makes is like experiencing magic.
Available exclusively in the UK from our partners.
Stillpoints
If you have a device that has direct contact from top to bottom, (12 o’clock to 6 o’clock) like single bearing devices, no matter what the materials used, it is damping – not isolating.
True isolation does not have a direct path between surfaces. Stillpoints patented technology stacks bearings such that there is no direct contact between the component and the surface upon which it rests.
Tidal Audio
Jörn Janczak, Founder and CEO of the German audio company TIDAL, is a music lover whose ambition was to build the finest audio systems in the world. Many connoisseurs would agree that he has succeeded.
TIDAL create unique masterpieces with jewellery finishes, timelessly sophisticated design and benchmark performance, that reproduce music with a degree of accuracy that is nothing less than lifelike.
Vitus Audio
Ask the CEO of Vitus audio, Hans Ole, to sum up his company’s ethos and he simply says, ‘We put technology at the service of the music.’
Although a trained electronics engineer, he has never lost sight of the primary purpose of audio equipment – namely to recreate the most natural and faithful reproduction of a musical performance that technology allows.
Waversa Systems
We are proud to announce we will be the distributors for Waversa Systems in the UK beginning in Q1 2023.
Keep your eyes here and on our social platforms for news of products and the first shipments to arrive…
Support
The Airt team can support you with any equipment servicing requirements from any of the brands we represent. You can also register your warranty. Use the links below to get started.
Warranty registration >
Become a partner
We are always looking to forge new relationships with retailers, manufacturers and distributors who feel they share our core values and who are interested in working with us and the brands we love.
Creating working partnerships promoting mutual respect, diligence, a sense of discovery and the intention to build a bespoke service for individual clients is our key purpose.
Our aim is to build a clear strong pathway; growing a substantial, sustainable and productive service and business together.
Blog
News, reviews and opinion from Airt and our partners
Gold Note DS-1000 EVO LINE Winner of hi-fi+ DAC of the Year up to £10k
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Vitus Audio Event: 24th & 25th November
PJ HiFi will be hosting a Vitus Audio event at their Guildford showroom. The event takes place on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th November and will feature a range of Vitus Audio...
The UK Hi-Fi Show Live – 30th Sep to 1st Oct 2023
The UK Hi-Fi Show Live takes place every year at Ascot Racecourse Grandstand. It's the UK's biggest high-end audio show featuring the biggest range of the world's finest audio brands. This year...
Acustica Applicata at Home Media
Our partners at Home Media have been long-standing evangelists for Acustica Applicata's range of acoustic treatments. It's a brand we champion at Airt as part of our mission to lower the noise...
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