Out of the Box – BAYZ Audio

Our ‘Out of the Box’ Series features companies who might slip through the net from time to time. Companies with something more than hot air, who make loudspeakers but make them with a rare passion that drives them and shapes the products they design and build.

Bayz Audio are an independent manufacturer based in Hungary. We currently produce two loudspeaker models, the smaller Courante 2.0 and the bigger Counterpoint 2.0. Our loudspeakers come in a standard black matte finish. Custom finishes (different colour finish, black piano or carbon fibre enclosure etc) are available for a premium.

When did you start the company?

I have been designing high-end audio devices since 1982. I started working as an independent contractor in 1986 and founded BAYZ Audio in 1997. My first patent was in 1982 a power amplifier free of TIM distortion (Transient Intermodulation Distortion) with a slew rate above 100 V/µs, with open-loop bandwidth above 10 kHz, and class A operation with moving working point. I hold the patent for this solution.

Is making a loudspeaker an ‘art’ or a ‘science’?

I think that a good designer takes advantage of the possibilities offered by computer-aided design, modern measuring procedures and measuring systems. If the question concerns speakers as works of art, i.e. as musical instruments, then I must say that it is natural for the designer to shape his “work” to his own taste. Forty years of experience behind me helps me to use the two seemingly opposite directions in synergy. I always tried to get the best instruments as much as I could and I also went to many classical concerts, both of which helped my speakers to sound close to live music. If the question is about design, it is not for its own sake with my loudspeakers: completely rethinking the loudspeaker design with the opportunity provided the BRS (Bay Radial Speaker), the resulting form is absolutely functional, yet, fortunately, it also meets the taste of many, although the quite unconventional shape of the speaker also surprises a lot of listeners at first.

What makes your loudspeakers different to other brands?

First, I designed dynamic speakers, upright cabinets, then hybrid electrostatic, and broadband electrostatic speakers.   Then, I produced an electrostatic tweeter with 360-degree radiation, which was followed by its dynamic version, the BRS, which I patented throughout the world in 2011. Before 2017, I only sold my equipment in Hungary and Switzerland, mainly custom-designed systems; but then, I decided that the world needs to know about my tweeter. In 2018 I brought out my new carbon and composite-based speakers, which contain revolutionary new solutions. Not only the BRS, which is an extremely linear omni-directional tweeter with a bandwidth of 1-50 kHz without breakup mode. The arrangement of the speakers, the lowmass cabinet with its aerodynamic design are no everyday features either. The BRS gained me my reputation in the profession, but it is my current product line, the Courante and Counterpoint speakers, for which I am known by the general public throughout the world.

Where do you hope the company will be in five or ten years?

I have a big decision to make now in this respect. One option is to develop new electronics to advance the state-of-the-art. The other is to design a more reasonably priced loudspeaker for a wider audience using the same phenomenal BRS tweeter. I will probably go in both directions in the future, but, unfortunately, it is never as fast as we want.

Where can consumers hear about your products and find out more?

We have a dedicated website, a Facebook page – The Bayz Audio Lovers Group and any further information can be had through our extensive list of distributors throughout the world. In the UK, we are distributed by Hifi Traders based in Rye. They will be also happy to organise demo sessions in the comfort of one own’s living room (Contact number +44 (0)7842 126218 or dave@hifi guy.co.uk)

We also plan private presentations in our showroom in Hungary.

Bayz Audio Website