![]() ![]() ![]() Put it in your car and take it away.” There was no faceplate, no lid – just a chassis with all boards and tubes exposed, wrapped up in a big plastic bag.Īt home, back-to-back comparison was instructive. It is perhaps a measure of the degree of confidence that Audio Note owner Peter Qvortrup has in the rightness of his product that, with a balanced version still some months from production, he simply gave me the pre-production prototype to play with: “There it is. I borrowed a burned-in Musical Fidelity 3D CD from a local dealer and contacted Audio Note to ask if I could try one of their balanced DACs at the same time. I concluded that a DAC capable of provoking such passion just had to be auditioned. In addition to being different, Audio Note’s approach seems to trigger a spectrum of responses ranging from huge enthusiasm through carefully studied indifference to outright derision. You’ll find various postings and reviews here and on AA about how that technology contrasts with the mainstream. The Musical Fidelity 3D CD up sampling CD player was then launched and unlike the US-made DACs it was readily available for audition here in Britain.Ībout this time, trawling the ‘net in an effort to understand how up sampling works, I stumbled over Audio Note’s UK site (and the company’s iconoclastic approach to DAC design. It proved too much like hard work due to the distribution arrangements both companies then had in place here in the UK (I do not know whether things have subsequently changed). Up sampling seemed to get a good press (it gets an even better one now) and I initially settled on trying to audition an MSB Link DAC III and the Perpetual Technologies’ P3 combo modified by Wright. Last year, dissatisfied with CD reproduction from a Meridian 500 transport and 24-bit DAC front-end, I was casting around for a replacement D to A converter. I have no commercial link, or connection of any other kind, with Audio Note UK ![]()
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