Please get in touch with us
We’d love to hear what’s on your mind about Austin AudioWorks’ products or anything else. Contact us via phone, email or the contact form below. The contact form is probably the best way to get in touch. We’re pretty busy these days 🙂 and we don’t work 24 hours a day, so please be patient with us! We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
For general questions or your Order: ba***@au**************.com
Or call us at: 1-512-912-6820.
You can also use the contact form below to reach us with questions about your order or anything else.
Corporate Mailing Address
Austin AudioWorks, Ste 350-256, 12400 Highway 71 W., Austin, TX 78738
No demos or tours available here, sorry! Products\orders returned to this address will be refused without a Return Merchandise Authorization number (please see the Ordering page).
About Us
AAW is a boutique audiophile design company located in Austin, Texas, USA, the live music capital of the world. In 2015, we began developing our ideas and principles, circulating prototypes and exploratory hardware among local listeners for critiques and reviews. Input from many experienced listeners helped us to improve our products’ sound quality and user-friendliness. Add in continual, relentless refinement, and you’ve got The Black Swan and The Black Amp. We won’t say they’re perfect, because nothing is—but we’re pretty happy with the way they’ve turned out.
Our technologies blend contemporary physics —no, really—with the best practices in circuit design and layout discovered and developed over half a century.
Barry Thornton
AAW’s founder, senior designer, and CTO, has been active in the audio design community for over 60 years—Barry prefers “experienced” to “old”. He started out in the 1950s, modifying existing products from Heathkit and EICO, and went on to design and build touring sound systems for Jethro Tull and many other bands. He created the Quintessence Audio Group products in the ‘70s and ‘80s, lost the company in a divorce, then developed products for SAE, Parasound, QED, Adcom, Audionics of Oregon, and Hegeman. From there, Barry created products for Monster Cable in the mid-’80s, and in the early ‘90s developed digital audio technologies for the entertainment industry. In the mid-’90s he created ClearCube, pioneering development of the blade computer, along with virtualization hardware and software.
After his first retirement, Barry created Austin Medical Research and spent 10 years developing pain-reduction technology. After his second retirement, Barry rekindled his love of audio technologies. In 2015 he evolved to a new way of looking at audio technology, exploring current domain signal processing, rather than the more-common voltage domain—laying the foundation for Austin AudioWorks and the AAW product lineup.
