FOUNDED: 1985
LOCATION: Modena, Italy
CHIEF ENGINEER: Giovanni Mariani
Gruppo Ricerche Audio Alta Fedeltà, commonly known as Graaf, was founded in December 1985, the outcome of a meeting between a small group of people with one thing in common, a strong passion for High-Fidelity and an unbounded confidence in the designer and partner of the company, Mr. Giovanni Mariani.
Thanks to Mariani’s several designs, a transparent and serious commercial policy, Graaf has gained, in a few short years, reliability and importance in markets worldwide.
Great care has been taken in selecting the finest components available and many are supplied by companies which guarantee the ISO 9002 certificate.
The extremely faithful sound reproduction is guaranteed by the choice of highly sophisticated circuits employed in all of Graaf’s models.
DC-coupling between the different stages, the perfect symmetry of every circuit from the input to the output, the use of differential stages, the use of unusual techniques for thermal drift checking, the careful selection of each tube, the choice of passive non-inductive components and of precision components, are some of the most important characteristics of GRAAF products.
The constant search to combine the perfect marriage of absolute transparency with natural musicality has created a loyal following among Graaf users worldwide, one that is guaranteed to grow with the release of future reference models bearing the Graaf logo.
