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Loudspeakers
Choose a handcrafted Italian standmount with cabinets carved locally from aged walnut and olive wood.
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about diapason
Diapason was founded in 1987 in Brescia, Italy, by Alessandro Schiavi, who came to loudspeakers through recording. In the early 1980s Schiavi ran a studio and worked on sessions for the Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo and the Fonè label, looking for a monitor that revealed the stereo image he was capturing. That search produced the first Diapason designs — the Prelude and the Adamantes — and the brand has built handcrafted cabinets ever since, with enclosures still made locally from aged walnut and olive wood. Diapason remains a boutique standmount and small-floorstander specialist where cabinet craft is central to the product, not a finishing touch. Recent designs include the Didascalìa two-way and the Dynamis, carrying forward the same hand-built, solid-wood construction. The company stays deliberately small, with Schiavi still directing the work. In the US, Diapason is a specialist's brand rather than a mainstream name: distribution runs through Fidelis Music Systems in New Hampshire, with retail availability via SkyFi Audio. Its standing rests on a consistent named-press record — SoundStage! Hi-Fi, 6moons, Mono & Stereo, and HiFi Pig have all covered the speakers — which is what keeps it on the radar of dealers who follow Italian audio even though it lacks broad US recognition. Diapason competes with other artisanal European loudspeaker makers at the high end, where solid-wood cabinet work and hand assembly justify the price against larger-production rivals. All design and construction happen in Brescia.