While reviewing the Aviator Amelia for Stereophile, Julie Mullins kept reaching for live recordings, and she heard the speakers bring "a sense of aliveness or liveness" to the music. Guy Lemcoe of The Audio Beat got up from his seat during a Jamaaladeen Tacuma funk track and did a few turns in front of his pair. Chario's big idea starts with the floor. Sound from a tower reaches you twice, once directly and once bounced off the floor a moment later, and where the two copies meet they can cancel or pile up, right around the middle of a piano. So Chario puts the tweeter below the midrange, which lifts the midrange farther from the floor, and on the Amelia a woofer fires down toward a steel base plate. Chario suits listeners who put natural voices and instruments first.

The Amelia, the smallest floorstander in the Aviator series, is a good place to start. Chris Baillie of The Ear found it "easy to drive," though he points fans of electronic music or organ works further up the range. Mullins says to "get the plates" that go under it, and Lemcoe heard them tighten everything up and widen the soundstage. For a smaller room, the Constellation Delphinus MK2 bookshelf speaker is the pick. Its port fires downward, so its feet must stay on. The step up is the Academy series at the top of the range. Michael Fremer found the Academy Sovrans the least fussy speakers he had ever set up in his room. Angle matters, though. Anthony Kershaw of Audiophilia tried his Sovrans firing straight ahead, went back to Chario's suggested 10 degrees and found the image firmer.

Chario began in Milan in 1975. Carlo (Charlie) Vicenzetto and Mario Marcello Murace were engineers at the University of Milan, and the name combines parts of their first names. Mullins writes that both were interested in how speakers energize the air in real rooms and how the head, ears and chest take in sound. Murace is still its chief engineer, and Alessandro Migliorini told Australian Hi-Fi that as far as he knows no other audio company over 40 years old has kept the same audio engineer since its founding. Chario designs and builds its own drivers near Ancona, and the cabinets are made near Vicenza, with Italian walnut sides finished by hand. Kershaw once played the pianist Robert Silverman some of his own Beethoven recordings on Academy Sovrans, and Silverman told him he had never heard them so accurately. The Delphinus went on to win Sound + Image's 2020 Loudspeaker of the Year award in its price class.