![]() I really don't mean to pick on it because the Arcam 8se actually sounds pretty darned good as a stand-alone opamp based CD player. My poor little Arcam keeps getting its arse stomped by these tubed designs I keep setting next to it. ![]() I had to chuckle to myself when I started the run in. I decided to plug it into the digital output of my Arcam 8se and let things run its course. Not long after, I received a relatively large, well packed box what contained the 2.1x sig.Īs you well know, a DAC takes the best part of a couple of hundred hours of run in before it begins to settle down. Last year, I decided to contact Peter to see if he were up for a review of one of his mid-priced DAC's. This brings me to the Audio Note 2.1x signature DAC. Years that I would review some of my favorite pieces. There were a few rooms that stood out to me back then so I decided that over the next couple of And finally, we listened to all of this through the Audio Note E/SPe and the K/SPe's. The sources were fed into the Quest Silver Signature 300B monoblocks. Next was the digital side of things and the CDT Two transport with the DAC 3.1x. This was all being fed into M5 Phono stage. 05mv (no typo) and the S3 mc step-up transformer. David's sources were a Voyd turntable with an AN 1s arm, the IO Two cartridge at the whopping output of. Peter literally has something for every audiophile out there.Īs luck would have it, I spent a fair amount of time in David Cope's Audio Note room one evening listening in awe of the system he had put together. This is the breathtakingly expensive line SET amps, preamps, turntables, speakers and DAC's abound. Then there is Peter's Ultra-phile gear that receives loads of great press. Audio Note also offers reasonably affordable DAC, preamp, amp and speaker kits for those of us who are mechanically inclined. A friend of mine owns a pair of the AZ-2 speakers which give similarly priced contenders some serious pause for concern. It's a mid-priced suspended table which sounds great. Personally I own the TT-1 turntable and love it. The price, quality and selection of gear goes up from there. ![]() The Audio Note 'entry level' gear starts with the very affordable high(er) efficiency AX speakers at $400 a pair. Qvortrup has designed countless pieces of audio gear that satisfy the masses. To anybody that has followed the high-end market knows that the Audio Note reputation precedes itself. These guys don't need much if any introduction. One of the manufacturers that was there was David Cope showing the Audio Note line. ![]() Manufacturers of the likes of Bruce Edgar with his immortal Edgar Horn, Ron Welborne of Welborne Labs, John Wolff of Classic Audio Reproductions and his fabulous JBL Hartsfield reproductions, Klaus Bunge of Odyssey Audio, plus the countless others showed up for three days of (mostly) tube bliss. Granted, it was largely ignored by the 'big guys' like Krell and Levinson but it drew a tremendous amount of attention from the tube and high efficiency crowd. In turn, Mike single handedly organized what turned out to be one heck of a good show. Mikeīaker decided that the great Midwest had gone too long without having its own high-end audio show. G oing back a few years ago, I was covering the first Midwest Audio Fest that took place in Lima Ohio. ![]()
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