Two friends, Jean-Paul Caffi and André Calmettes, conspired to develop an amplifier that would conform to their special conception of what a hi-fi system should sound like. It started out as a hobby and soon became a passionate obsession. By 1983, they were ready to form a company to market their hand-built equipment and they called it Jadis.

When Jadis amplifiers first hit the audio market, they caused a real flutter. The circuit design was idiosyncratic and flew in the face of accepted practices.  However, critics couldn’t deny the utter musicality and the extraordinary presentation with which these Gallic amplifiers were making their mark. Jadis was producing real boutique items: the Bugatti of audio. The cult of Jadis had begun.