Warsaw Audio Video Show 2025

In fact, it’s such a success, it makes one person covering the entire event extremely difficult. Not only are there hundreds of rooms stretched halfway across Warsaw, but also during each day, the sheer number of people crowded into each room makes navigating the show virtually impossible during its peak hours. However, from a manufacturer or distributor’s perspective, that’s the kind of ‘impossible ‘you want! However, do note that many prices are quoted in PLN; we have tried to convert where no Euro, US dollar or Pound Sterling price was forthcoming. Here are some of the high points of the show…

Advance Paris

Setting a trend of products first shown at Munich High-End 2025 and demonstrated at Warsaw, the A-i190 Nova is the flagship integrated amp of Advance Paris’ new Nova series. A dual-mono, 190W per channel Class AB amplifier, the new design features a two-deck readout, a hybrid preamplifer stage (with tubes on show), a pair of chunky VU meters on the front panel and a quad ESS Sabre ES9017S DAC with custom DSP. All for €5,000.

Amphion

Unlike many brands that go with an ostentatious display at a show, Amphion took a more laid-back approach. The company had the simplest of demonstrations, with just the new €3,750 per pair Argon 3X stand-mount perched atop a pair of the new €5,000 per pair Argon 3LX, all running from a laptop into a  SPL Phonitor x headphone amp (as preamp) and unnamed power amp. No fancy cables, no excessive room treatment, and no loudspeaker stands for the bookshelf speakers. Just a good, basic system to showcase the similarities between two pairs of speakers. And yes, they were very similar, both with the characteristic Amphion studio-clean sound and with the 3LX having a shade more bass. As it should be.

Audio Group Denmark

Taking two rooms, one to show the more affordably priced Axxess loudspeakers and electronics, the other to showcase the more upscale Aavik, Ansuz and Børresen systems, the two Audio Group Denmark spaces were packing in the crowds across all three days. The most notable part of both demonstrations; filling a huge room with sound, using a pair of €35,000 Børresen T1 stand-mount loudspeakers and a pair of the company’s unique A3 bass modules (€18,000 each).

AVID, B.audio, Intrada

The Polish Intrada loudspeakers move fast. I was sitting listening to a system with a pair of the 29,400PLN Erik, and by the time I reached for the camera, the company had unhooked them and were wheeling out the 131,000PLN Maurice. The Erik sounded really good, however, aided by the 38,680PLN AVID Relveo turntable and Altus tonearm, with Goldring MM cartridge into an 22,360PLN AVID Accent phono stage. Digital and amplification was supplied by B.audio with the 85,950PLN B.dpr EX streaming DAC preamp and B.amp mono at 120,350PLN. All sitting on the excellent AEON Light X stands by Bassocontinuo.

Bona Watt

Like most new products at Warsaw, the Polish-based Bona Watt company launched its €9,995 Triton integrated amplifier at Munich High-End 2025, but was on demonstration here. The hybrid 250W amplifier combines an all-tube preamplifier stage with three RCA inputs and a resistor ladder volume control, a Class D power amplifier stage, and two expansion slot for an array of digital, phono and line-level expansion cards made by MugzAUDIO. Judging by the sound it makes from a LampizatOr DAC and through Oephi speakers and cables, Bona Watt is bona fide!

Crystal Cable and Estelon

Polish distributor Nautilus had two vast demonstrations at the Golden Tulip hotel. One featured an Ayon system with Lumen White Light III, while the other sported Estelon’s X Diamond Mk II floorstanding loudspeakers, driven by Kondo electronics. Both systems used Transrotor turntables with ZYX cartridges, with the Estelon/Kondo-based system running the mighty Orion Reference FMD turntable.

This system – one of the most expensive in the show – was topped off with almost €200,000 worth of Crystal Cable and Siltech cables, with Crystal Cable’s new Infinite Dream cable on display. First shown at Tokyo earlier this year, Infinite Dream interconnects start at a cool €34,000 for a 1m pair.

DALI

Sadly only on static display, but DALI’s new Kupid stand-mounts are taking the world by storm. Priced at just €338 per pair, these tiny two-ways are said to defy their size thanks their ability to entertain. They are also praised for their ease of set-up. For those who think audio is getting ever more expensive, these loudspeakers – coupled with something like the Eversolo Play (€699) or the WiiM AMP Ultra (€599) – make a refreshing and strong argument for low-cost, high-performance audio.

Delta Audio

Delta Audio, distributor for a range of products, had a fine system playing. With the Gold Note Mediterranneo X turntable and Donatello cartridge playing through a full top-line front-end comprising PH-1000 phono stage, CD-1000 disc player, and DS-1000 EVO DAC/Streamer. The DS-1000 EVO was connected to the network thanks to a Network Acoustics Tempus switch, Origin power supply and muon pro Ethernet filter. This was all hooked to a Mastersound Spazio valve preamplifier, a pair of Mastersound PF 200 litz power amplifiers, Brodmann Acoustics VC 7 loudspeakers, powered by a Tsakiridis Super Athena mains conditioner, Magaudio absorbers, and a combination of ZenSati and Titan Audio cabling. This was a fine example of each company bringing its A-Game products and creating an A-Game system.

Diapason

Thanks in no small part to loudspeaker design guru Paolo Tezzon – who joined the company earlier this year – the new €59,000 Didascalìa flagship from Diapason was one of the stars of the show. A two-way floorstander with twin side-firing racetrack shaped passive radiators, the Didascalìa uses real-wood side cheeks a cleverly designed crossover that can match bass to room and ‘floats’ on its four outrigger feet. Sonically, it has a lot in common with the classic Sonus faber Extrema stand-mount, and looks set to be a tour de force in the high-end loudspeaker world.

Dream Audio

One of several ‘open your wallet and repeat after me… help yourself!’ systems at the newly expanded PGE Narodowy national stadium, high-end distributor Dream Audio presented a truly international take on top-end audio. The pan-European side was taken up by a Taiko Olympus server (from the Netherlands), Ypsilon Electronics Silver Edition amplifiers (from Greece) and the world premiere of the Kroma Atelier Maribel floorstanding loudspeakers (from Spain). This was topped off by Stage III Concepts cables and Carbide Audio Isolators (from the USA) and rounded off by Telos Audio Design power products (from Taiwan) and a HIFISTAY rack (from Japan). The price? Don’t ask… and was in PLN. As a rough translation, the new speakers were around €425,000 per pair…

Dynaudio (Nautilus Poland)

Nautilus Poland (Dynaudio’s distributor) went bold this year. Taking several rooms, the star of the show was the vast London A room at the PGE Narodowy national stadium. Alongside the Confidence 60, the company played the stunning Contour 20 Black Edition in a room that should be far too large for a two-way stand-mount design.

However, aided by a Silent Angel digital front end (comprising Munich, Rhein, Forester, Genesis, and Bonn) and amplifiers from Polish company Circle Labs; the €5,490 P300 line preamplifier and the new M500 hybrid mono power amplifiers capable of delivering 600W into an eight-ohm load. There was also a new 75W AS100 integrated amplifier. Prices of these amplifiers are still to be determined.

EMM Labs, Magico

One of the nicer sounding rooms in the show – and one prepared to play more than just the standard audiophile musical options – Dwa Kanały’s larger room featured several prototype EMM Labs products alongside the mighty Magico S5 That being said, the company’s smaller room, featuring the Magico S2 with MSB and Pilium electronics was no slouch either. The EMM TXi CD transport fed the new DA2i DAC into the new PREi and MTRX2 V2 mono power amps. This was one of the most effortless and controlled sounding systems at the show, as reflected by the more varied musical being played. With the only colour coming from the dark wood and aluminium uprights of the finite elemente stands, this was also the ultimate in ‘none more black’ systems, perfect for playing some Spinal Tap…

ELAC/Linn

ELAC’s Concentro M807 (195,998PLN) loudspeaker was launched earlier this year. Featuring ELAC’s Jet 6 AMT-style tweeter, surrounded by six 40mm high-midrange drivers. This array is flanled by two 115mm low-midrange drivers, while bass is taken care of by dual 250mm, side-firing aluminium sandwich bass units. The speaker was partnered with Linn’s LP12 Selekt turntable and Selekt DSM Edition hub, and a pair of the new Klimax 500 Solo mono amps, as well as IsoTek’s V5 Aquarius conditioner and EVO 3 Optimum power cord, as well as Audioquest Pegasus and Thunderbird cables.

Eversolo

It’s easy to dismiss Eversolo as a low-end brand thanks to products like the €699 Play getting all the attention. Scratch the surface and there is a lot more depth to the company. The DMP-A10 is a perfect example; this €3,800 streaming preamplifier is the company’s flagship product is extremely comprehensively equipped, includes room correction software, an ESS chipset, large touchscreen and more. To get a similar specification would have been impossible a few years ago, and to find it from a European or American brand would likely cost many times more. One to watch.

Fezz Audio

The Fezz Audio Luna Mini EVO has no reason for being as good as it sounds! Replacing the Polish company’s Silver Luna integrated amplifier his simple, all valve design sporting two 12AX7 input double triodes and a pair EL34 power pentodes, the 10W per channel design is priced at 6,500PLN, or roughly €1,550. Playing through a pair of €1,400 Pylon Audio Diamond monitor 15 mk II stand-mounts, when you could get into this packed room, that was €3,000 worth of clean, dynamic magic!

Franco Serblin

The great man may no longer be with us, but Franco Serblin’s legacy lives on in the brand that carries his name. The new Accordo Unica (€39,000) is a three-way, four-driver loudspeaker capable of delivering down to 27Hz in room. It was sounding excellent on a Jadis JP80MC Mk II preamplifier and a JA200 Mk II mono power amplifier, all driven by a Revox B77 Mk III. The system had the perfect blend of old and new from a sonic perspective.

hARt Lab Tune Six

The new €26,000 Tune Six is the first integrated amplifier from the Athens-based tube-amp experts hARt Lab. The hybrid 150W amplifier comes with four line level inputs, a streamer and a headphone amplifier as standard, with a twin-input MM/MC phono module and twin input DAC module as optional extras. Its unique user interface allows precise control of the amplifier’s basic and deeper functionality, while its relay-based attenuator, zero feedback MOSFET output stage without transformers or coupling stages in the signal path makes it the amp to watch.

The amplifier was seen in two rooms; the first with a Reed front-end (more on Reed later) and Aretai Contra 100S loudspeakers. The second was featured in one of two Oephi rooms… and more on Oephi later, too.

Heed Audio

Those with unfeasibly long and detailed audio memories might recall the diminutive ION Systems Obelisk amplifier from the 1980s and early 1990s. The ‘transcap’ RC-coupled amplifier passed from Ion Systems in the UK to Heed Audio in Hungary. Both the Obelisk Is and two Obelisk power supplies – in the distinctive half-width case – are still in production to this day, but that narrow case prevents the Obelisk from answering the call of the modern audiophile. The new, full-sized Obelisk has sufficient space to include a streamer, a DAC, a headphone amplifier and a home theatre loop alongside the 2x50W Obelisk amplifier circuit. The new Obelisk will come in two guises; a €3,500 standard version, and a ‘Super’ version with a beefier PSU for €4,300.

Holborne

Swiss turntable maker Holborne has come back from the brink… literally. The original founder of the 35 year old brand had decided enough was enough, and having stalled the brand about five years ago. He was in the process of throwing out the original plans when he got a call from two people interested in restarting the company. The new owners – Swiss Analog – have made essentially the same Analog 2 and Analog 3 turntables, DualPivot Mk II tonearm and H1 moving coil cartridge. However, where possible they have simplified and refined the original designs; for example, offering aluminium as well as carbon in the tonearm, and more advanced electronics. They retain the unique floating point bearing (or ‘Sway Free Tip Bearing’) in the turntables.

New for Warsaw, the Holborne Analog 3 is available to Gold status (costing around CHF10,000, as opposed to the CHF8,250 of the Silver and CHF6,350 of the Black). The difference between each model is in improvements to arm and bearing materials.

Ideon Audio

Greek digital experts Ideon Audio were flipping between the company’s its all-in-one IΩN DAC and preamp and trio of EOS digital devices (DAC, Clock, and Streamer), with a ∑igma Wave USB isolator (passing into the preamp section of the IΩN into a suono Mk2 25W amp by Lab12 and hORNS Symphony 10 horn speakers). This effectively meant the difference between a €20,000 DAC (in the IΩN) compared to €6,000 worth of EOS DAC, plus a €6,000 clock. The EOS system more than held its own against the higher-end IΩN. And, from experience, both get close to the Absolute range from Ideon Audio.

Innuos

You might have thought, with its ZEN replacements and its new Nazaré flagship, Innuos would not have time to develop other products, but 2025 was a bumper year for the company and its Stream series was launched at AXPONA 2025. Stream1 and Stream3 are the company’s new entry-level streamer/servers. The Stream1 starts from €2,250, the Stream3 starts from €5,800, and the LPS1 linear power supply is €1,150 as a standalone or €950 if purchased with the Stream1. Apparently, they’d prefer us not saying too much about them because they can’t build them fast enough to meet demand, but the demonstration at Warsaw gave a pretty good explanation why that is!

Lockwood Loudspeakers

Scottish brand Lockwood Loudspeakers began making pro audio loudspeakers in the 1930s and many classic British albums from the 1960s onwards (including Let It Be and Dark Side of the Moon) were monitored and mastered using Lockwood LSU10 loudspeakers. A fire in the 1980s destroyed the factory but the brand resurfaced in 2017 (run by Daniel Timms, the grandson of Lockwood founder, Stanley). Where in the past it used Tannoy Dual Concentric drive units, Lockwood has switched to custom design Volt drivers made to the company’s Lockwood Green specification in all of its models. Lockwood recently took over Tannoy’s Hamilton factory and took on many staff from that 99-year-old brand.

Warsaw saw the brand add a new, smaller loudspeaker to the hitherto five-strong line-up; the new Mini-Major features a five-inch Lockwood Green point source driver with an Alnico magnet, stands smaller than ever and is priced at around €5,000 per pair.

OePhi

Alongside the company’s ever-expanding and highly-prized range of loudspeakers and cable systems, OePhi showed a prototype streamer and power conditioner at Warsaw. Details are ‘sketchy’ (as they are both works in progress and the end result isn’t finalised yet) but the as yet unpriced two wood-fronted boxes sounded good in both of OePhi’s rooms; one of which featured a Doshi Audio Evolution pre/power system and OePhi Immanence 2 stand-mount speakers, the other with a hARt Lab Tune Six integrated amp and Oephi Ascendance 2 stand-mounts, with OePhi Kala cables throughout. This last might seem like an imbalanced system (every other part of the system was more expensive than the loudspeakers) but both rooms worked extremely well.

Oneiros Audio

Oneiros Audio is a new British high-end company… sort of. The brains behind Falcon Acoustics – Jerry Bloomfield and Graeme Bridge – have moved up a notch from making LS3/5a into designing a three-way floorstander with twin 10” bass drivers, twin three-inch midrange and a one-inch diamond dome in a unique carbon-fibre monocoque enclosure. The £500,000 loudspeaker was being driven by a VPI Vanquish turntable and rack with a Fatboy arm, a DS Audio Grand Master cartridge with TB100 tube equalizer, Audio Research Reference 10 preamp and 330M mono power amps, all fed by Mythical Beasts – Dragon cables by Audioquest. The Oneiros team were playing complete albums from beginning to end, so the usual demonstrations do not apply, but people sitting and listening to a whole album at an audio show is a rare event, so they were clearly on to something.

Pylon Audio

Pylon Audio first showed the Amethyst Gamma at Munich High-End 2025, alongside the  €65,000 Fezz Audio Supernova Line of amplifiers and the mighty LampizatOr Pacific 3 DAC and KBL Extrema cables. The company replicated that system in Warsaw. The smallest of three models in the Amethyst line, the uniquely-shaped three-way floorstander uses top, custom-specified Scanspeak drivers, a sandwich-like construction. If this is the ultimate expression of Polish high-end audio, it’s certainly looking good and making all the right noises!

Raidho Acoustics

Raidho Acoustics showed two models, not seen in European shows before. The €21,000 Anniversary Edition X2t celebrates a quarter of a century of the brand (above right). It sports an upgraded crossover, one of three unique finishes, Furutech connectors and a Serial Number plate. Just 100 pairs will be made and they sounded great played through MOON by Simaudio‘s 681 Streaming DAC preamplifier and mono 761 power amplifiers from its North Collection. The Anniversary Edition X2t may have been ideal for the small room, but they were dwarfed by the new TD3.10 flagship (above left). First shown at this year’s Munich High-End, these €125,000 giant three-way, five driver full-range loudspeakers sounded fun and fast even when pounding out the bass!

RCM Audio

RCM Audio frequently takes the Platinum room at the Golden Tulip hotel, and that’s fitting because the company’s systems are always gold and platinum-class. These are profoundly – but not exclusively – analogue systems, fielding top-end turntables and extremely well thought-out systems from RCM Audio’s extensive high-end portfolio. The main room featured turntables from SME, Kuzma and TechDAS, with MySonic, Kuzma, and DS Audio cartridges and RCM Audio’s own phono stages, including Theriaa Mk II owned by this reviewer. Digital and amplification came from Vitus Audio and ended with a pair of Hailey 3 loudspeakers from YG Acoustics. Once again… effortless. This was matched by a second room that featured Thrax Audio electronics and Gauder Akustik loudspeakers. RCM is a distributor of depth and understanding, helped by the fact that RCM owner Roger Ademek doesn’t know how to make a bad-sounding system!

Reed

Reed’s new SF cartridge is the Lithuanian company’s €8,850 take on the optical DS Audio cartridge concept, coupled with a €29,500 DS Audio ready Reed EQ phono stage and matching power supply. Playing through a twin-armed Muse 3c turntable into a hARt Lab pre/power and Aretai floorstanders, this gave listeners a unique chance to compare convention MC and optical designs directly. The optical has the edge on detail, clarity, accuracy and lower noise floor, although, in fairness, some preferred the ‘romance’ of moving coils.

Revox

Announced at Munich this year, the 16,995 Revox B77 Mk III is a true rebirth of the iconic open-reel analogue tape recorder. The new version uses original Revox motors and tape heads improved and designed for long service life. The Mk III also sports all-new electronics to bring a design first seen in 1977 bang up to date. Revox can still service, repair and restore original A77 and B77 tape decks (and even older models), but for the latest in reel-to-reel technology, brought from the last quarter of the 20^th century into the second quarter of the 21^st, form an orderly queue, because just 20 of these future classics can be made each month.

Silent Pound

Last year, Silent Pound wowed us with its prototype of the Bloom stand-mount loudspeaker. This year, the €14,999 three-way constant directivity loudspeaker with its unique midrange enclosure that makes the loudspeaker almost act like a point source is in full production. Partnered with Metronome source components and a Vitus Audio integrated amplifier, these loudspeakers show a lot of promise. Silent Pound demands listeners sit in line with the sweet-spot (as befits a panel-type speaker) but the sound was great around the room.

Sound Club

Top-end high-end systems abounded at the PGE Narodowy national stadium. One of Sound Club’s mightiest systems comprised a complete Wadax Reference Server and DAC for digital, a Brinkmann Taurus with a 12.1 arm and Air Tight PC-1 Coda cartridge into a Soulution Audio 757 phono stage, with Soulution Audio 727 preamplifier and 717 stereo power amplifier.

This passed, via a series of Jorma cables and Franc Audio platforms, to a pair of Göbel Divin Noblesse floorstanding loudspeakers and Divin Sovereign subwoofers. The system was capable of spell-binding, captivating sound. Price? As it’s dependent on the cables, who knows… but it’s a lot!

Storgaard & Vestskov

Founded just two years ago from an island in Denmark, SV-Audio (also known as Storgaard & Vestskov) has developed a commanding reputation for making a trio of ultra-high performance loudspeakers. Warsaw this year was no exception. The company’s middle model, the €18,995/pair Gro loudspeakers, are a two-way, three driver rear ported loudspeaker use a HDF cabinet coupled with a machined aluminium front baffle, and the result is a loudspeaker that sounds far bigger than it has any right to, and is not troubled by rooms large or small. The Gro (and €15,750 Frida two-way stand-mount loudspeaker) were used with an impressive combination of dCS Lina and Accuphase electronics on a NEO stand and almost €200,000 of Zensati sILENzIO cables.

Technics

This was the big one at Warsaw! Technics called time on the evergreen SL-1200/1210 turntable with a final flourish!

Except for the four-year hiatus from 2010-14, the SL-1200 has been continuous production from the early 1970s to 2026. More than three million direct drive turntables bearing the 1200 banner have been sold and a MK2 is on display as one of the pieces of technology cited as ‘making the Modern World’ in London’s Science Museum. However, some externally-sourced components are no longer available, making the end of the SL-1200 inevitable.

Technics couldn’t just quietly drop this iconic turntable, so has instead announced the final version; the SL-1200/1210 GME, or ‘Grand-class Master Edition,’ The GME is a synthesis of all Technics direct drive turntable developments in one turntable include Delta Sigma drive and the latest power supply, and the Bulk Moulding Compound/Die-Cast chassis adding a lot of mass to the design. With a gold-plated magnesium tonearm and numbered limited edition plate, just 1200 of the silver SL-1200 and 1210 of the black SL-1210 will be made. With a price expected to be around €5,499 get in quick when the order book opens early in 2026!

Triangle

Although playing its Magellan 40^th Anniversary through some excellent Canor components (Gaia C2 DAC and A3 Virtus integrated amp) and Melodika cables, Triangle (in the Rafko room) was showing its new €2,499 Capella Wireless 2 wireless loudspeaker, with matching Stereo Hub 2 preamp/streamer. The Capella 2 uses the company’s 25mm horn tweeter (this time a magnesium/aluminium alloy dome) and 165mm mid-woofer, a down-firing port and Triangle’s own Driver Vibration Absorption System. This is coupled with the new, colour-matched Stereo Hub 2 with a more powerful ARM processor. It comes in five new finishes, and we love the English Green!

Triode

In a not unexpected twist, the Triode company makes valve amplifiers, many of which use – you guessed it – triodes! What is surprising, however, is this range of integrated and headphone amps, pre/power designs, and both a phono stage and CD player, are all relatively affordable… and made in Japan. The company has been in business since the early 1990s, and if products like the €19,000 Junone 845SE integrated amp are anything to go by, they deserve more attention. This 845-based, 22W per channel has five line inputs (including one ‘main’ input), and remote, a dot display… and the most glorious piece of ‘Japlish’ mis-translation; a ‘ham balancer volume’. You may not want to balance any pork products through the Triode Junone 845SE, but it makes excellent sounds, especially through a pair of Peak Consult Sonora loudspeakers.

Unison Research and Opera

Unison Research’s Unico brand had two new models with a new look. But this is not some rebranding exercise; Unison Research has been working with the electronics engineering department of the University of Padua to create a new form of sliding Class A/AB operation, creating a Class AB design with almost zero crossover distortion (like Class A… but without the heat). The valve-based Unico Pre cost 24,999PLN and the 220W Unico DM costs 34,999PLN. Integrated amplifiers and streaming DACs will follow in this new range. There was also a new version of the Opera Grand Callas floorstander.

Vivid Audio

Quietly, Vivid Audio reworked its popular and distinctive Giya G1 for only the third time in its 18 year production life. The new G1 Spirit Cu features copper-clad midrange assemblies, a reworked cabinet that’s both lighter and stiffer, and improved grilles. Played through EAT and CH Precision sources and Mola Mola amplifiers, this new version sounds every bit as good as we’ve come to expect from Vivid, but it’s been some time since I heard a Giya G1 to compare. Vivid is unlike most companies in the audio business, as the new model does not come with a price increase!

WK Audio

We’ve been following WK Audio‘s cable systems for some years. The company’s top TheRed cable is one of the hidden gems in audio, and its speaker cables have recently been completely upgraded with better spacing systems. It might not be the smallest or most discrete cable on the planet, but it is one of the best, and in Warsaw it showed why once again. This remains one to watch!

There were many more. We try to focus on rooms where there is something new (or new to us), but there were dozens of other rooms making good or great sounds that therefore slip under the radar. Some of these were top-end systems. The dCS, D’Agostino, Wilson Audio combination is a well-trusted, good sounding system for a reason and nothing changed that at Warsaw. Similarly, the one-make high-performance system from Gryphon shone bright. And systems from Chord Company (with Audiovector), Cambridge Audio, Esoteric (with Fyne Audio), Hegel (with Indiana Line loudspeakers) and more were doing excellent service. And there were also local heroes like Unitra and more. The brand most seen in the widest number of rooms was (perhaps unsurprisingly) local hero LampizatOr. But this wasn’t just Polish people supporting Polish brands… it sounded consistently good too!

Warsaw Audio Video is one of the last shows in the European audio calendar… and what a great way to sign off the year!

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