“Why Zero is our Hero - It´s a winning combination of cohesiveness and integration; brilliance and detail; dynamics and attack. With each individual component beeing well matched, the overall result is superb [...]”

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HI-FI Choice Review

Användarrecension från Audiogon forumet av Kevingf

“As a former bass player myself, I’m not the only one to recognise and salute the work of Nathan East in particular. On Midnight Stroll (Fourplay, Warner Bros 26656 – 2) the 4.1 shows him at his funky and tastefully restrained finest. East’s playing of his Yamaha bass simply demands respect and, just before the fade out, delights with its humour and subtlety. Through the Audio Note DAC, it’s like hearing the track for the first time all over again.”

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rdgtl&1169714977&read&3&4&

Recension från Dagogo av Jack Roberts.

“I don’t know how a music lover could listen to a DAC 5 Special and then go back to any other digital device without going through real withdrawal”

http://www.dagogo.com/AudioNoteDAC5Special.html

Recension från Enjoy the music av Steven R. Rochlin.

“To say it is the highest performing DAC my ears have ever clapped on to would be an understatement.”

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0401/andac5special.htm

Recension av DAC 5 aka “super dac” från Stereotimes av Constantine Soo.

“The Audio Note DAC 5 Special is beyond reach for most of us; but the hobby of high-end audio can be an extremely
personal and private one for many of us, and for what the Super DAC can do to enrich our experience on this
journey of life, it is invaluable.”

http://www.stereotimes.com/comm102003.shtml

Recension från hometheaterhifi.com.

“Accompanying the peerless midband is rock-solid image placement, transparency of an uncommonly high order (but confined to the midband), and far greater speed that you’d ever credit a farty old tube like the 300B.”

http://www.hometheaterreview.com/equipment-reviews/audio-reviews/stereo-amplifier-reviews-classic
/audio_note_conquest_amp_reviewed002288.php

Recension av Recension Kuldeep Singh.

“Whether or not you agree that single-ended amps are the answer to life, universe and everything, anyone clapping ears to the Conquest through suitable speakers will be hard-put to deride them as being the audio equivalent of a Mills & Boon. Alternately forceful and delicate as the occasion demanded, the Conquest proved a capable, and musically satisfying performer.”

http://sites.thestar.com.my/audio/story.asp?file=/1997/8/07conq

Recension från hometheaterhifi.com av Jason Victor Serinus.

The Audio Note M3 preamp certainly deserves its top-of-the-line status. It is a solidly built unit capable of producing a most seductive, liquid, and eminently musical sound. Other preamps in this price range may more offer more detail, tighter bass, less coloration, or a blacker black, but these are not necessarily the qualities that many listeners value most highly. The Audio Note M3, for example, would prove an excellent complement for a CD source or amp - especially a solid state amp - that tended to
produce bright, edgy, or overly etched sound.

When all is said and done, the Audio Note UK M3’s large, mouth watering presentation and non-fatiguing reproduction of digital sources will prove the perfect cup of tea for many audiophiles.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_10_4/audio-note-m3-preamplifier-10-2003.html

Stereophile review of AN-E SPe HE by Art Dudley

SPe HE is the sort of thing that will compel you to play every record you own, all the way through, without interruption—arguably because it does a better job than most of really connecting the listener with the dramatic, intellectual, and emotional intensities captured in every groove. I can’t recommend it strongly enough.

http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/506an/index5.html

Stereophile review of AN-E Lx Signature HE by Art Dudley

“Anyone with this kind of money who’s looking for a very musical and exceptionally efficient loudspeaker simply must try the Audio Note AN-E Lexus Signature: It’s joined the Lowther horns and Quad electrostats as one of the very few speakers I know I could live with and love, indefinitely.”

http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/506an/

AN-E SE Review by Jack Roberts

The sound that comes out of a well broken in, well setup pair of these is beyond my words. It stirs my emotions and it is easy on the ears. How do they sound? In reviewing the $2500 AN-E Ls, they sounded more like live music than any speaker I had ever heard.

http://www.dagogo.com/AudioNoteAN-E-SE-2003.html

I-Zero - Level 0 - Audio Notes enklaste integrerade rörförstärkare med push-pull teknik. Drivs av 4 stycken ECL82 rör.

Oto Line PP - Level 1 - 12 watt Class A push-pull integrerad förstärkare med EL84 rör.

Soro Line PP - Level 1 - 20 watt Class A push-pull integrerad förstärkare med 6L6G rör.

Oto Line SE - Level 2- Single-ended Class A rörförstärkare med EL84 rör.

Soro Line SE - Level 2 - Single-ended Class A rörförstärkare med 6L6G rör.

Meishu - Level 3 - Single-ended triode Class A rörförstärkare med 300b rör.

Jinro - Level 3 - Single-ended triode Class A rörförstärkare med 211 rör.

Tomei - Level 4 - Single-ened triode Class A rörförstärkare med 211 rör.

Ongaku - Level 5 - Single-ended triode Class A rörförstärkare med 211 rör och silver-transformator.

AUDIO NOTE PERFORMANCE LEVEL SYSTEM

Level Minus Two: Class B push-pull transistor amplifiers, no Audio Note amplifiers in this Level

Level Minus One: Class A push-pull transistor amplifiers, currently no Audio Note amplifiers in the Level

Level Zero: Class AB push-pull pentode or tetrode amplifiers

Level One: Class A push-pull pentode or tetrode amplifiers

Level Two: Class A single-ended pentode or tetrode amplifiers & Class A push-pull directly heated no-feedback triode amplifiers

Level Three: Class A single-ended directly heated no feedback triode amplifiers

Level Four: Class A single-ended directly heated no feedback triode amplifiers, with high quality parts and materials such as hard wired circuits using silver wire, copper or silver foil signal capacitors, choke coupled power supplies with valve rectifiers for the HT, with a mixture (relative to overall cost) of Cerafine or Black Gate electrolytic capacitors, non-magnetic resistors made from tantalum film and output transformers with C-cores (instead of IE cores traditionally used due to cost) with very high nickel content.

Level Five: Class A single-ended directly heated no feedback triode amplifiers, with only the very best parts and materials available, fully silver wired high content nickel iron C-core output transformers, Black Gate capacitors throughout where available, silver foil signal capacitors, and both circuit and power supply hard wired with silver wire.

Level Six: As Level Five, single-ended directly heated no feedback triode amplifiers, but all-out versions with no expense spared on parts, silver wire even in the mains lead, mains transformer, chokes, likewise highest grade C-cores in mains transformers, valve rectification and regulation, no signal coupling capacitors but silver wired C-core interstage transformers between each gain stage, super thin lamination Super Radiometal 48 C-cored driver and output transformers.

Level Six amplification is used to drive the Audio Note™ silver wired record cutting system helping produce the finest analogue software ever produced and thus helping to move LP quality firmly back in the driving seat of sonic quality for years to come.

Med hjälp av mätutrustning och datoranalys kan vi ta reda på de akustiska egenskaperna just i ditt lyssningsrum och genomföra nödvändiga förändringar för att uppnå den bästa tänkbara ljudet just i ditt rum.

Vi använder följande utrustning:

Mätmikrofoner -Earthworks M30, Haun 550, Beyerdynamic MM1

Ljudkort - Motu UltraLite MK3, Motu Traveler MK3

Mjukvara - Acoustisoft ETF, TrueRTA, Room EQ Wizard

Miljöteknink - Diffusorpaneler - Golden Horn, RPG Skyline, Basabsorbenter - ex. Svanå V4 och V6, Dämplpattor - Ecophon Wall Panels

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