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Audio Note Japan vs Audio Note UK--Comments?
Vinylphile's response is ill informed and is referring to a situation that is at least 7 years old, today there is little difference in quality between the parts used by us and Mr. Kondo.The main designer here is Andy Grove and has been since 1994... 
Audio Note Japan vs Audio Note UK--Comments?
Vinylphile's response is ill informed and is referring to a situation that is at least 7 years old, today there is little difference in quality between the parts used by us and Mr. Kondo.The main designer here is Andy Grove and has been since 1994... 
Audio Note Japan vs Audio Note UK--Comments?
Vinylphile's response is ill informed and is referring to a situation that is at least 7 years old, today there is little difference in quality between the parts used by us and Mr. Kondo.The main designer here is Andy Grove and has been since 1994... 
De-Emp and Direct Which to Use
Dear All,The facility for a manual de-emphasis was borne out of the need to be able to allow de-emphasis on discs where there is no encoding that triggers the automatic de-emphasis.Now you may ask, are there such CDs??Unfortunately yes there are a... 
Transformer coupled / Capacitor coupled
Dear Clueless,There is a world of difference between the transformer volume control that Thorsten is talking about in this article and the use of transformers in the output of a pre-amplifier.Take the M3 for example, it uses an output transformer ... 
Why do the Audio Note preamps sound so much better
Dear Bilbondo,Why??Quite simple, in the M5 (and all our other transformer coupled pre-amplifiers, the M3, M6 and M8), there are no impedance mismatches, there is more than sufficient gain to maintain the dynamic envelope of the signal intact combi...