There is no single, universal solution for all audio systems – saying that such exists is as absurd as saying there is one universal tool to fix everything.

Franc Audio Accessories offers a wide range of solutions for various audio sets, from budget-friendly to ultra-high-end. By introducing several product lines as anti-vibration ceramic footers, platforms, dampers or audio racks, we can meet every application. This allows us to satisfy every customer – from the less affluent to the most demanding customers with ultra high-end audio and home theater components and systems.
Franc Audio Accessories it’s a superb way of providing a stable support for your audio set.

…and sound has no limits…since 2009…

Franc Audio Accessories was founded with the idea of demanding audiophiles wishing to improve the sound of their audio systems. The company’s products are directed to audiophiles/melomans/music lovers, those who appreciate fidelity of sound and sophisticated and functional design.

The company was established in about 2009. The main purpose of it’s owner has been to eliminate of uncontroled vibrations occuring during listening to music. He has discovered a technique of joining really hard and stiff ceramic materials together with light aluminium alloy and different composites. All partsand components are precisely machined on CNC, that gives a great quality and 100% recurrence. The final and highest quality finish is achieved through precise, hand-crafted processing.

Few words from Pawel (founder)

I founded the Franc Audio Accessories brand with demanding audiophiles in mind, who want to improve the sound of their audio systems.

The company’s offer is aimed at customers who value outstanding design and perfectly made products – refined in sound and mechanics in the smallest details, taking the customer to the real world of high-end.

High-end is not just a product – it is a whole range of appropriate actions from correct design, through beautiful packaging, to perfect operation. To do this, appropriate engineering knowledge and many years of experience are required.

A true high-end producer is this one who consistently follows their chosen path, implementing their own vision and ideas dressed up in his original solutions… this is certainly not the one who, is only “inspired” and copying concepts and designs from others.

My name is Paweł Skulimowski, but everyone calls me Franc. I graduated from the Gdansk University of Technology. By education I have a master’s degree in mechanical engineering with a specialization in welding and an international and European welding engineer, but above all, and since childhood, I have been a designer… and a drummer.

My dad had a bowl with screws, nails and other curiosities in it. I loved to drag it to my room, put the contents onto the carpet and look through the treasures it hid. On the same carpet, for many years, I also created various constructions, and the most important of them was a cross-country bike, on shock absorbers, the only one of its kind in the whole city. Well, but I exaggerated, the carpet was black from grease – the “workshop” was closed by an “angry and annoyed” mother, and in addition to tinkering, I also started playing the drums. This was around 1990.

After completing my studies, I started working for a large international corporation producing bronze ship propellers and steel castings of steam and gas turbines. I think, that in this point I can brag because as a welding specialist, I designed welding technology of motors and propellers housings (POD Drive) for the most modern and largest cruise ship at the time – Queen Mary 2. After that, as a welding engineer, then chief welding engineer and then head of a quality control department with over 30 employees, I learned what quality is and how important it is in technology. The knowledge of metallurgy, materials science and design acquired during my studies, as well as professional work requiring constant supervision and control, taught me that the key issue in technology and manufacturing is just knowledge, quality and precision at every stage of production – from design through production until packaging and service. While working, I was also drumming in free time in local bands and having contact with live music and its recording in recording studios. I also became interested in the quality of recordings and their verification/listening on audio equipment.

Work allowed me to buy my first hi-fi set (which I still have) and around 1998, as a novice audiophile, based on my increasingly broader knowledge and experience and being constantly aware that the sound could be better, I started building my own anti-vibration systems, and after almost 10 years of experimentation, I decided to start my own company.

I started working on the design of the first footer – Ceramic Disc Classic. It took me about 2-3 years. I had to be sure that it was a finished and perfect construction in every respect – from the correct operating, through the appearance to the packing, and having constant contact with live music and being aware of how the instruments sound and should sound after playing the recording from the audio set, it was not easy, but at the same time I found myself in an ideal situation for this type of production – I was able to look at what I was doing very critically and with distance.

The 19-element Ceramic Disc Classic saw the light of day in 2009 and immediately won the approval of reviewers, praising both its excellent sonic qualities and the entire setting in which it is “served”. Its design has remained unchanged to this day and it is manufactured in an identical way, from the same materials, so as to be 100% certain that all its aspects will remain unchanged.

The footers received very good reviews and opinions both among audio owners and in the domestic and foreign press, and it quickly turned out that the stand line had to be expanded. This is how the Ceramic Disc Fat and Slim Foot were created.

The following years of the company’s activity were constant development, expanding the offer with new products and expanding into new markets.

Today, Franc Audio Accessories is a company with an established position among manufacturers of high-end accessories, with many years of experience supported by engineering knowledge and excellent quality products in its offer. The knowledge I gained during this time also resulted in writing, at the request of the Hi Fi Choice editorial team, a series of articles on anti-vibration and suppression of unwanted resonances in audio systems, which I am really proud of.

Franc Audio Accessories products have won many excellent reviews and prizes in the professional audio press like “Product of the year”  – HiFi+”, “The most wanted components” – The Stereo Times, “Red FIngerprint” or “Product of the year” – Highfidelity, “Best Buy” – HiFi Choice, “Best Buy” – The Ear and more. They are also a permanent fixture in the test systems of many reviewers around the world, including 6moons.com, HiFi Statement, Highfidelity, Soundrebels, The Stereo Times, HiFi Knights or HiFi Choice.

In 2024, Franc Audio Accessories was also honored and recognized as the most important audio manufacturer of the last 20 years by the prestigious audio portal Highfidelity.pl.
This is a great distinction and a very strong recommendation, of which the company is proud Ceramic Disc Fat Foot graced the cover of the prestigious HiFi Review No. 346 magazine.

The company offers very advanced anti-vibration audio racks and platforms in the Reference Line product groups (Alu Master Reference Line and 15th Anniversary) and Wood Block Line, which, combined with the aforementioned anti-vibration ceramic footers, provides comprehensive solutions for entire audio systems, both very advanced from the high end sector and basic from the hi-fi group. At Franc Audio Accessories, everyone will find a comprehensive solution for their needs and system.

The company has a carefully designed and constructed listening room with controlled acoustic conditions and top-of-the-line listening equipment from renowned high-end brands. Franc Audio Accessories products are also tested here. This guarantees and ensures that everything is properly controlled and the products fulfill their intended purpose… nothing happens by chance here.

Thanks to the constantly expanding list of distributors, Franc Audio Accessories products can be seen for years at the most important audio fairs around the world.

Years of work and continuous development and improvement have also resulted in collaborations and joint projects with many excellent companies in the high-end world, including APL, AudioNec, Ayon, Engstrom, Stenheim, and many others. This is the trust these companies have placed in Franc Audio Accessories, and of this I am very proud.

I am very grateful to my distributors for their hard work and help in developing Franc Audio Accessories, as well as to all the customers who have trusted my brand – without you it would never have been possible.

I am very happy that today you are browsing through the offer of Franc Audio Accessories and I will be happy if you find something suitable for yourself … and I am convinced that you will.

Paweł Skulimowski (founder)