Like motoring around the world in the world's finest British grand touringĬar, the Audio Note UK Ongaku does not just show up. Toe and all was well, other than the hours of enduring throbbing pain. Fortunately, I made a small splint for my smaller Get too close to this behemoth and the sheer weight and solidity is enough to break your You decided to take a drive in the Bentley automobile close to the sun. You see, or perhaps not if you are blind, they operate at a temperature as though Tube cage around them one should take care if they are blind not to touch them. And if we continue the humorous criticisms, that brings up those large 211/VT4C tubes, which without a Though to be frank here, the Ongaku is truly a stunner visually, provided you were born without the gift of sight.Īs for the external construction, it appears to be cobbled together by the finest shop teacher, who always seems to be missing a finger tip… or Top chassis is made from copper and makes a Route for rectification, supporting small signal tubes, employs interstage In some ways it has the same build traits of no-holds-barred parts qualityĪnd many pounds of silver wire, yet in other aspects the UK version goes another Japanese version to make improvements and here the UK Ongaku is the 'classic Audio Note UK' architecture, which is completely different at this juncture from the Kondo work. Audio Note felt it was time to rework the electrical design of the Output is via pure silver loudspeaker binding posts. Selector knob is located at the front of the unit with the volume control. Transformer, SHiB double C-core mains transformer and Audio Note's handmade 23 position attenuator.Īs this is an integrated amplifier, thereĪre four stereo inputs via pure silver RCA jacks on the left front while an input Gate electrolytics, in-house designed and made Audio Note 99.99% pure silver wired double AN-Perma 50 nickel C-core output Being of the Level 5 family, the Ongaku also uses Audio Note 2 watt Tantalum resistors, Black For rectification, a pair of new old stock 5R4WGB 'potato mashers'Īre used.
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Note silver wired driver transformer on a double AN-Perma 50 nickelĬ-core. Other tubes include an original NOS Brimar CV4068 input valve and Telefunken 6463 driver stage driving an in-house designed and made 1:2 Audio Very large tubes that operate very hot and produce light the equivalent of aĢ5 Watt light bulb. This produces about 27 watts per channel. Yet reworks the design using interstage transformers and other techniques.Īs i said within the opening, the unit uses one per channel VT4C/211 high Indeed some of the finest in the world, the UK version does the very same While the original Japanese Audio Note Ongaku used carefully chosen parts, My usual car equivalent of the Ongaku as seen within my reviews.
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So as another forewarning, have been feeding myĭaily driving with a Bentley GT and watching plenty of Top Gear plus various Jaguar fans must remember they have aįine car, yet perhaps more akin to the Audio Note Level 3 versus to GT, which is the finest British driver's automobile and for the Shall instead focus on a loose equivalent. There are buying opportunities to be had and big players out there who canĪfford such luxury items. With theīig money getting bigger and small to medium getting squeezed out. While given the world economy it may seemĪn interesting time to review the $95,000 Audio Note UK Ongaku. Years after that during CES 2006, and now the world has an updated version Years later the JapaneseĪnd UK entities of Audio Note split up, with Kondo passing away a few Reviewer to put his money where his mouth is (was?) concerning theĮxcellence of this design. Japanese version by Kondo-san graced my home for years as i was the only OfĬourse rectification is also via tube, naturally. Triode integrated amplifier and uses the powerful VT4C/211 output tube. Adding to the allure is that it is a single-ended Silver transformers and a generous sprinkling of exotic parts all wrapped
Reason! Here is the legend of handcraftsmanship, many pounds of hand wound Rightly, consider it one of the 'Holy Grails' of audio.
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