Reviewing Audio Note UK’s performance level hierarchy, zero is named for a type of minimum technology that Audio Note feels can properly recreate quality sound. After all Peter did name one of his amplifiers “Jinro”, which is also very famous brand of Korean Soju. Then calling it IZero I began to wonder if Peter had lost his mind and started making iPod attachments, or maybe he is just a huge fan of movies wherein Will Smith fights robots. When you see components called “Zero” it doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence. Before all you pure class A single ended triode readers prepare to have your eyes roll in haughty derision, you may wish to hold your sneers back because if there is a class A/B push pull amp that will change your mind, the IZero is very likely to be it.Īs many of you know Audio Note UK builds systems in a series of levels. The IZero uses four not often used ECL82 triode/pentode tubes and it operates in class A for the first four Watts then switches to Class AB1. Here I sit with the 8 watt per channel IZero integrated amplifier, which is Audio Note UK’s entry level integrated amplifier.
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Quite simply, they “get it.” They get what music reproduction should be and how to extract music from various sources and mix the elements of truth and beauty to draw you into wanting to continue listening to music even when you should be off doing something else. However, over the years I have come to the conclusion that if I came across the bucks to spend such dollars the first company I would look to would be Audio Note UK. Many of us who live on things called budgets view $100,000+ components as crazy toys for the rich. Audio Note UK often takes flack from the peanut gallery on internet forums for their very high priced audio components.
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