That clicked – I had owned one of those (yeah, well) post my extreme hifi to a back to the basics phase, which I eventually sold as it did not cut mustard with classical. I remembered that the CD was based on a filterless 1543 DAC. I googled for reviews and found positive ones. At night, it still sounded a bit shut in, and I panicked. So I left it to cook and went out for dinner. I went against the AN grain and hooked up my Graham LS 5/9 briefly, and it sounded sweeter and open (it costs a hell of a lot more, and perhaps as much as the whole AN system, and to my happiness, I noted that this 8W amp drove the less efficient speakers well in my large living room), but still, it didn’t happen! At higher volumes, there was too much projection of vocals into the room, making it a tad shouty. So whatever I played, I felt that the sound was very midrange centric and not very open.And this complaint from a midrange centric guy! Los Lobos’ Kiko, an album that I heard magically with Apogee loudspeakers eons ago, sounded very shut in and unexciting, as did the assortment of classical and jazz I played. However, there was a thickness to the sound that was not my glass of rum. The huge positive was the voices which sounded really good. Aernoud had warned me that it will take 20 minutes to warm up, 2 hours to reach optimal performance, but if newly set up, it settles down over a day. The other was that the speakers were flush against the wall, which won support from she who wants to hide my audio away who is used to speakers being pulled out for “listening”. One positive was that the integrated amp was stacked on top of the CD player. But then, AN philosophy is all about synergy, with handpicked components.Īernoud took over an hour to set it up and dial it in. Of course, it came with its own stands, which were priced at INR 42,250 (yeah I know what you are thinking – the stands cost more than half the price of the speaker, can do something less expensive locally). A two way (6” paper cone bass driver, 3/4” silk dome tweeter) rear ported design, this had the hallmarks of an easy to drive speaker. Last out was the relatively unassuming and small AX-Two Bookshelves with a stated sensitivity of 90 db/W/m and an impressive frequency response of 55Hz-20kHz (+/-6 db). The power supply is equipped with two mains transformers. As with AN, everything was AN with the AN Lexus Stereo Interconnect and 2.0M B-S AN-Lexus LX speaker cable, and AN power cables as well.
Featuring an in-house modified Philips front loading mechanism, It has a digital out with the conversion out of a filterless Philips TDA1543 DAC in non-oversampling mode and a 6111WA valve based analogue output stage.
Out came the CD Zero in matching black with a tray that closes so fast like it means business. For those who think “only 8W” and switch off reading below (and I myself do that often), please read on. The build quality of the finish far surpassed the recommended price. The Integrated Zero, which puts out 8W per channel (class A/B) with 4 ECL 82 triodes, came out first, in black acrylic with well weighted bling golden knobs.
The playback speed can be changed from 66% to 80%, normal and even up to 150%.Aernoud, the Mumbai distributor/dealer of Audio Note considerately helped me unpack the well packed system that arrived at my place.
Audionote demo software#
The software utility integrates a small search tool with preferences such as matching case or the whole word, and going to the previous or next result. However, you can also find a pen and highlighter modes, as well as the possibility of setting the time for a selected body of text or image. There are quite a few options available that are similar to the ones provided by Microsoft Word, such as inserting bullets, symbols and pictures. Moreover, the UI is customizable, in the sense the Notepad background can be easily changed with the ones provided by the developers.
The interface of the application is modern-looking and highly intuitive, thus enabling any type of individual to easily work with it, regardless of their previous experience with the IT world. However, saving your projects can only be done in an AUDIONOTE format. This software utility supports import from a number of different file formats, such as PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP and MP3. AudioNote is a simple and useful program that helps you record discussions, meeting, interviews, memos or lectures, and add notes that act as links, directing you to the moment you need to listen to.
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