Who We Are
Artisan Acoustics is a new European loudspeaker company dedicated to designing and building handcrafted high-end speakers for discerning audiophiles.
Founded by Nikos Psaltakis, a seasoned audio professional and lifelong music enthusiast, the company is rooted in a deep, personal connection to sound. Raised in a family of high-end audio lovers, Nikos developed an early fascination with music reproduction — a passion that later evolved into formal studies in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Audio Production and Psychoacoustics.
That background became the foundation of everything we do today.
“It was the moment I heard Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygène Pt.2 on my uncle’s DIY horn system, driven by two Luxman M-03 amplifiers back in 1988, that I knew where my heart belongs.”
From that defining moment, the mission became clear: to create loudspeakers that evoke emotion — not just reproduce sound.
How It All Started
During the COVID lockdown, after years of working in the professional audio industry — designing, installing, and fine-tuning systems for others — we finally took the time to create something entirely our own.
We set out to build a dedicated listening room and a no-limits horn loudspeaker system, conceived without compromise.
The journey started with the room itself — the true foundation of sound.
A dedicated 110 m² listening space was designed and constructed from the ground up, with acoustics integrated into its architecture. An irregular geometry was carefully developed to serve one purpose: the pure experience of listening.
Then came the speaker. Drawing upon years of experience in the music industry by designing, voicing, and tuning systems and extensive research carried out during the lockdown, we created a four-way, fully horn-loaded, active system. This is our personal reference and the benchmark by which we evaluate everything else.
From Word of Mouth to Recognition
What began as a personal project quickly drew attention.
Friends and fellow audiophiles were invited to listen. Their reactions — curiosity, excitement, and ultimately deep appreciation — led to something more. Word began to spread within the audiophile community.
Soon after, we were introduced to George Ligerakis, CEO of Ideon Audio, a respected figure with experience across some of the world’s finest high-end systems.
After extensive listening sessions, George was deeply impressed by the transparency, detail, and lifelike realism of our horns – especially after the last round of refinements.
He then made a request that changed everything: to design a scaled-down version that could fit elegantly in his living room, keeping the high and mid sections of the original while combining midbass and bass into a single, compact enclosure.
And that’s how Euphonia was born.