In this way, Audio Note has grown synonymous with a particularly effusive form of development zealousness and can prove its success by simply pointing to the price tag. But who’d find that surprising, one might ask rhetorically: If a company applies this kind of relentlessness to designing its products both in terms of the components it uses to build them and the vertical range of manufacturing know-how it possesses, that company can hardly help but find itself at the top some day. Rarely does such agreement prevail - even among competitors - in an industry that inseparably melds technology and art. Declared dead by many, tube technology just doesn’t seem to want to give up the ghost, and the amplifier-makers from England have been passionately making their own decisive contribution to this specialized area. Hardly any other manufacturer has so resolutely worked its way up to legendary status in the field of tube-driven playback technology as Audio Note. In the end, is the device perhaps even too inexpensive? But with an entry price of €3,950, the long-awaited integrated valve amplifier Cobra has also sparked curiosity among music aficionados who normally wouldn’t be able to buy equipment from the British premium brand. The TM Phono Stage Survey: Rules & RegulationsĪudio Note has rightly earned its place among luxury brands. Review: A Sonnet Stack: Hermes Streamer, Pasithea DAC, Kratos Mono AmplifiersĪlbum of the Week: The Ephemeron Loop | Psychonautic Escapism

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