Audio Note products are arranged into levels according to their performance
standards. Each performance standard is derived from the culmination of many
years of experience with extensive measured and sonic testing of a huge range
of passive and reactive components in a great many circuit topologies.
Where we have been unable to satisfy our quest for
ultimate quality with components we have designed
and fabricated our own. This is evident in our Japanese
manufactured amplifiers like the world renowned Ongaku
(with its specially selected hand wound silver output
transformers and meticulously made silver capacitors)
right through to our entry level products with our
Audio Note British designed output transformers.
This experience has allowed us to form a hierarchy
of features, of which we hold dear to our hearts:
Pure Class A Operation
Single Ended Operation
Zero Feedback
Directly Heated Triode Output Stage
Valve Rectification
Materials and Component Quality
The criteria determining the structure of the levels
of our extensive range of products is as follows:
For
an amplifier to qualify for entry to the Level 0
and Level 1 categories it must include at least one
of the six points listed above. For Level 2 - at
least two of the above criteria are required, and
this system is carried up in the same manner to the
higher level amplifiers. Whilst this holds true for
our amplifiers, our other products within these ranges
are designed to complement the amplifiers within
the level of which they lie.
Products are divided up into the following categories:
For an amplifier to qualify for entry to the Level
0 and Level 1 categories it must include at least
one of the six points listed above. For Level 2 -
at least two of the above criteria are required,
and this system is carried up in the same manner
to the higher level amplifiers. Whilst this holds
true for our amplifiers, our other products within
these ranges are designed to complement the amplifiers
within the level of which they lie.
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