Inside Ars Aures workshop: two hours with the builders of the Estasi
A trip to the small workshop where every Sensorial is born by hand. Patents, materials, build times and a handshake on why multi-layered wood matters.
We went to visit them to talk about the Estasi and stayed two hours longer than planned. The workshop is small, very clean, smells of fresh wood. The founder walked us through bench by bench.
Why wood staves and not MDF
"30 mm natural multi-layered wood resonates less than MDF of the same thickness, and when it does it resonates musically, not mechanically. It costs more, requires longer seasoning times and tighter machining tolerances. But that's why our cabinets don't need excessive internal damping."
The "double cavity" patent
The 11" woofers of the Estasi don't work in a simple bass reflex chamber: behind the cone there's a double cavity acting as an additional tuner. The result is bass extension down to a declared 18 Hz without level compression, with very good group delay linearity.
Build time for a finished pair of Estasi: six to eight weeks. Three people touch them in different phases. Glossy automotive finishes are done by a trusted nautical body shop. No assembly line: just a sequence of controlled steps, one at a time.
