OUR STORY
Technique and Innovation
The "father" of ELISA is Electronic Engineer Cesare Mattoli. General Manager and owner of Hi-Tech Solutions, an Italian company with 25 years of experience in the automation and equipment sector, Mattoli focused his skills and those of his company, on facing and solving one of the most paradoxical issues about headphone listening: he took on scientifically the challenging issue of headphone sound "flatness".
“I remember that years ago, when listening to music on my headphones, I was amazed at the very high sound quality that finely crafted headphones could deliver. Nonetheless, it was still too far from the visceral, tactile vibration of three-dimensional listening that anyone could experience when playing their own stereo systems in a room. The flatness of the sound in the headphones seemed to me a serious limitation that had to be overcome
This was the spark that eventually led to ELISA." Electronic Loudspeaker Imaging Simulating Amplifier
1978: the first attempt to recreate the sound image. A partial success made difficult by excessive background noise and distortion due to the components available at that time.
1993: a second attempt was made with the introduction of new components and innovative technologies that redefined the sound image. However, the project was put on hold as it wasn’t measured up to an High – End product, yet.
2022: the project was resumed and a lifelong dream came true. AUDMA was born along with its first amplifier, the HPA1P, equipped with the ELISA circuitry. This amplifier was made exclusively for testing carried out among others by world famous musicians, who appreciated, admired, and praised the ELISA effect.
2024: at last after two years of testing and trials, the AUDMA MAESTRO HPA1 amplifier came into being totally made in Italy and patented for ELISA circutry.
"With Audma, I wanted to tackle, with a technical and scientific approach, an audiophile problem that was considered unsolvable: the in-the-ear or on-the-ear sound reproduced by headphones. This led us to analyze and identify the physical basics of listening to a system in a room, to recognize their components and to reproduce them through the ELISA circuitry."
This approach have never been attempted before; that’s why the ELISA function is unique, registered, and patented.