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Ahh but you said the big thing that Stereophile is afraid of...

If Audio Note is right - and IMO they are - then that means the rest of the industry(well most of it) is wrong. Audio Note doesn't pay for ad space in Stereophile - and this fellow since hearing Audio Note does not NEED to buy Stereophile anymore because he has heard a system that makes (Much - not all) those class A componants from Stereohile sound like the equivelant of smelling a cow patch.

The reason we rely on magazines to tell us what is good is because they can differentiate between 12 companies all making the same kind of sounding banal systems. With Audio Note it is just so far superior to the rest of the stuff my store carries that ANYONE golden ear or NOT can tell.

And their level approach which seems so out into left field actually does make a huge difference. You go up a level and it makes a hugely noticeable improvement...even if you at first didn't know there was anything that COULD be improved in the first place. A Bryston 3B and a 4b sound the same - a B&W 705 versus the 703 - adds more bass - but nothing about the treble or midband improved and may have actually gotten muddier. Not so with AN Speakers. I went from the K to J to get more Bass - little did I know I would get an improvement not only in bass but every other aspect of the sound. And The E/Spe I have to say takes my J up to another level as well - but I don;t have the pockets.


The more people who listen to AN the less people will need to read Stereophile or any magazine - because I have heard Stereophile's recommended stuff and I have heard AN's stuff. My conclusion is that I am a way better audiophile than those reviewers - though they have slicker writing styles than myself. I certainly recommend the musical system over the keeping up with the Joneses style systems that you need to upgrade every 2 years because that is when the company needs a new review, which Stereophile is happy to review.

Like I say listen to the AN E with Oto SE and AN CD player(say 3.1) with AN matching cables. System is something like $10kUS. So you should expect a lot granted.

Now compare that to the Class A rated speakers amps and cd players from Stereophile like Any Krell and with top of the line or up there Mark Levinson cd player and preamp with Wilson speakers. I did. This system is well over $60k and is utterly embarrassed by the AN entry level system.

Sorry I felt like a rant. But Passion - where the hell has that gone - how many companies have made me passionate over the last 15 years of listening to systems at stupidly high costs from Legacy, Cabasse, YBA, Musical Fidelity, Classe, Coplan, Martin Logan, B&W, and on and on? Audio Note.

I grant you that some feel equally passionate about Magnepan and Quad etc - so the point is not the WHO does this for you - but the make damn sure that there is a Companies products that DOES do this for you. For instance the Krell ML and Wilson for soemone else might be it.


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