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world of music, spending hours listening to many amazing albums and discovering new details in the songs I already knew. All thanks to the A1/25, an audiophile class tube amplifier from Audolici.

Very few will have ever heard of Audolici, so first a small introduction to this company. The history begins with Ukrainian Valeriy Kuchkovskyi who,back in the days of the Soviet Union, worked in the Ukraine as an engineer specialized in tubes. Do you still know what a tube is, also known as vacuum valve? These were used before transistors and transistors were used before the integrated chips IC became the norm and are used all over nowadays.

Early on Valeriy started discovering the mysteries of audio circuits, especially the ones using tubes. Instead of just using well known schematics, he introduced his own ideas into the circuits. 15 years ago Valeriy moved to Portugal and in 2007 he founded his own company Audolici, in partnership with INESC Porto, the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of the city of Porto, located in the upper north of Portugal. During a period of five very productive years, Audolici not only developed a variety of tube amplifiers, phono pre-amplifiers and studio equipment, building up simultaneously a network of specialized companies to provide components of the highest possible quality. The best known Audolici product developed within this period is the classic AUDOLICI-50 Series, featuring the Jazz, Swing and 108 TELE-audiovision International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine — 09-10/2013 — www.TELE-audiovision.com