![]() ![]() We finally managed to meet beginning April this year, I mean Wiktor and me. We agreed to test this amplifier, but without setting a specific date. For the latter, the division was made in a quite unusual way, because it was not a preamplifier or power supply sections that were placed in separate chassis, but the input selector and attenuator. There were two amplifiers utilizing the EL tubes, and each of them was available in two versions: integrated and as separates. It was about both the external design and the quality of workmanship. It was a tube devices that could well be made in Japan. When during the Audio Video Show 2018 I saw the new Haiku-Audio amplifiers called Origami - I was speechless. In other words – elements that in a bigger scale production are simply too expensive to use and using them make it impossible to maintain repeatability of products. We can find in it short series, often one of the kind products, which are something like "special products", using NOS type tubes, high-end components, even more sophisticated circuits, and so on. When we look at the offer of this Krakow-based company, we will see that the designer's passion, or continuous striving for improvement, a need to try new solutions - that all of this culminates in a separate series of products called "Haiku Custom Works". With time, finished products became dominant position in the lineup and today they are the basic activity of the company. ![]() Initially, the products with the Haiku-Audio logo were available mainly in the form of kits, in various stages of assembly. He started in 2002, but the company was not founded until ten years later, when its founder found his own path. But for years he has also been an active audio amplifiers designer. Iktor is a musician - a bassoonist - playing both symphonic music and experimental forms. The name of the company, the name of the particular model, but most of all the approach to its products meant that the Polish device had to be included in the issue dedicated to products from Japan. The owner of Haiku-Audio and its chief designer is WIKTOR KRZAK. The name of the circuit refers to its simplicity and effectiveness, a harmonious combination of content and form. Established in 2012, it took its name from the type of output amplifier by company called Talcomp. ⌈ HAIKU-AUDIO is a Polish company with its headquarters based in Krakow, specializing in the production of audio amplifiers. ![]()
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