My goal, in writing reports on the Warsaw Audio Video Show, may be to mix products from Polish brands with a few noteworthy premieres. But when a chance meeting during dinner led to the discovery of Mozzaik Audio, headquartered in Croatia just a few countries south of Poland, my interest was piqued.
It piqued further when I learned that the company's amplifier, which has been marketed in Europe for three-four years, "embraces distortion." The amp, which outputs 500Wpc into 4 ohms, has several settings intended to manipulate "psychoacoustic distortion" for optimal sound. According to Mozzaik's Marko Dvecko, the setting I heard added second-order harmonics to high frequencies a bit above 2kHz; another setting was described as "a very personal one favored by people who like single-ended triodes (SETs)." It seems the designers started with triode characteristics and then made their own "engineered distortion."
Mozzaik also has new speakers that made their debut in Poland. Together with the company's upsampler and streamer, the sound, on Music Aeterna'a period instrument recording of Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and a high-resolution Piazzolla track from Bert van der Wolf of Spirit of Turtle, was sufficiently intriguing to make me hope to encounter Mozzaik Audio again in a more conducive acoustic.
Mozzaik also has new speakers that made their debut in Poland. Together with the company's upsampler and streamer, the sound, on Music Aeterna'a period instrument recording of Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and a high-resolution Piazzolla track from Bert van der Wolf of Spirit of Turtle, was sufficiently intriguing to make me hope to encounter Mozzaik Audio again in a more conducive acoustic. 
