Richard, you’re nuts! It just can’t work. And there’s even more, you want me to run a high-distortion single-ended tube amplifier and downright weird-measuring zero over-sampling CD players. Corner loading causes all sorts of bass problems and room issues.
Okay, that’s all bad enough but on top of all of that, you want me to put the speaker in the corners of my room. After all, most of the rest of the industry is of the view that an 8-inch woofer can’t negotiate the upper midrange while also producing ample enough bottom-end. What else, you ask? The spacing between woofer and tweeter is too large to create a cohesive top-to-bottom sound, and mating an 8-inch woofer to a 1-inch tweeter means that the midrange can’t work properly. And that’s not a complete list of where these speakers depart from industry accepted principles. The AN J/SPe, under review here, is a two way stand mount speaker using the same 8-inch woofer and 1-inch tweeter that the AN E uses and is essentially designed for a smaller room and smaller budget, while retaining most of what the AN E brings to the table.Īudio Note seems to be one of those maverick companies that seems to deliberately go against current mainstream ideas believing in, and creating such often deemed, crazy products such as low-powered single-ended tube amplifiers, CD players with no over-sampling or digital or analog filters, the belief in turntable superiority in the digital era, and loudspeakers which go against most all currently accepted speaker design principles.Īnd yet, Peter Qvortrup of Audio Note insists that his plain-looking two way rectangle boxes – wider than they are deeper, with hard edged corners, soft dome tweeters, paper woofers with foam surrounds, birch plywood rather than MDF, and no internal damping, are speakers that were right decades ago and still point the way ahead today. Audio Note makes several smaller, and quite excellent, stand mount speakers in the AX Two and AN K as well as floor standing speakers. But the AN E is not the only Audio Note loudspeaker deserving of your attention. The Audio Note AN E has become a modern day classic now widely reviewed and revered all around the world by several major publications, including several of the reviewers here at Dagogo.
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