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The common misconception with valve am plif iersisthattheym easure badlyin signalto noise ratio,distort,lack drive,resulting in poor bas extension and poor treble detail. This could be applied to any amp regardles of technology used, but it isn't. How does the Audio Note OTO sound?W hymightitbe right for you? Justusvon Liebig,the founding fatheroforganic chem istry, som ewhere in the m id 19th century turned hisatention to food -how to m ake bread lighter,the chem istry ofcofee m aking and,m ost notably,found am ethod ofapplying heat-autolysis to a stickytarblackresidue created when brewing beerto create a yeastextract-add som e saltand veggie flavouring and you getsom ething vaguely edible -M arm ite -aBritish cuisine icon.
Researching for this article throws up forum s bursting atthe seam swith raging audiophile culture wars arguing for and against valves for al the reasons mentioned above. I'm going to be contentious here and sum m arise this as a M arm ite argum ent.Becauseuntilyou’vetried it-How do you know ifyou Love itorHate it? Brighton based m anufacturer, Audio Note are viewed by m any as the m avericks of Hi-Fi. Free thinkers,ec entric,bold and quirky.But,thisalows them to do things very diferently. Unlike m ost m anufacturers,Audio Note have huge controlover their com ponents and m aterials - hom e folded capacitors, resistors, even the quality of steel/iron used in the windingsoftheirown transform ers.No detailisoverlooked to produce productsforM usic's Finestconductor.Indeed,the detailresultsin no les than 8 variationsofthisintegrated am plifier.
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