The AudiaZ Cadenza finally took longer to find their way to Gröbenzell than expected, but in return, I gave them a listen through more vinyl records than with any other test object in recent years. Moreover, they were my speaker of choice for a number of reviews. So I may state straight away that a living room-friendly audiophile gem is awaiting its discovery.

In the article about my visit to Chiemsee Hifi respectively AudiaZ I commented already on the company history of the speaker manufactory from the Alpine foreland, so here again briefly summarized: Since 1995 Dr. Helmuth Weber and Günter Hartl develop and manufacture loudspeakers as a team. By the year 2000, they established the civil-law partnership Hartl & Weber Audio-Design GbR, which then began with a (small) series production. Shortly after the company's founding, the awareness level in Germany of the name AudiaZ expanded thanks to positive press reports about their exclusive loudspeaker models. So it happened that after a colleague’s enthusiastic review during my work for a print magazine at that time, I presented Mr. Hartl and Mr. Weber with an award for their Aurea speaker model. Already back then, the two relied on the well-reputed drivers from specialist Accuton. Since they didn’t want to compromise on the internal wiring either, they developed their own flat ribbon cable, which excels through polished silver conductors surrounded by extruded Teflon with a porous structure. The high percentage of air in the insulating material ensures a very low dielectric constant. By the way, all AudiaZ cables are manufactured by the specialists from GORE. The assembly itself is then carried out in Rosenheim. The most successful market for AudiaZ cables, as Helmuth Weber reported, has been Hong Kong.

The Cadenza is the latest creation from the house of AudiaZ and has officially been available since the beginning of the year. It succeeds the just mentioned Aurea, which was also equipped with two 17-centimeter woofers. Helmuth Weber took over the shaping from the ETA and explains this move as follows: "The triangular shape of the baffle [for the midrange and tweeter units] with the edges beveled to the rear not only prevents unintended edge reflections, but also avoids an increase in sound pressure due to parallel cabinet walls, the so-called "baffle step". Due to the inclination of the baffle to the rear, the voice coils of the tweeter and the midrange drivers lie on the same plane, their sound fractions thus adding up perfectly in time and phase." And this is how the developer explains the rather unusual arrangement of the woofers: "The two bass drivers radiate time-coherently as well and excite the room modes in the low frequency range more evenly than two bass drivers installed on top of each other in one plane due to the 90 degree offset arrangement. Cabinet vibrations are also significantly less excited by the V arrangement of the woofers than with a usual twin positioning (the effect is comparable with a motorcycle engine with a V arrangement of the cylinders)."