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Updated, May 1, 2004
Note: Audio Note now sells all of its small parts (capacitors, etc.) through Parts Connexion.
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Audio Note™ Analogue
Products
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Effective May 1, 2004
Phonographic Cartridges
Common to
all our phono cartridges’ is the quality
of the diamond, stylus and magnet assemblies, the replacement
stylii are interchangeable between the
IQ1, IQ3 and IQ3, a simple and worthwhile upgrade.
Our moving coil cartridges are
both extremely low output, very low compliance and very heavy. They
normally require a step up transformer with a minimum of 28dB gain and
a high rigidity, medium mass tone arm to perform at their best. Active
step up devices are not recommended.
Due to the quality of the
quality, even hardness and polish of our diamond styli, life can be
expected to be on the order of 2,000 to 3,000 hours against the normal
life expectancy of 500 – 1,000 hours for a normal diamond stylus.
It should be noted that all Io
repairs should be sent directly to Audio Note™ UK Ltd. All Io
cartridges can be repaired regardless of age, the repair includes a
new cantilever with diamond, new suspension, tie wire and
re-magnetisation of ALNICO magnets, warranty is as for a new
cartridge.
Updated
Audio Note™ Analogue
Products
Moving
Coil Step Up Transformers.
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All low
versions should be used with Audio Note™ MC cartridges to get best
bandwidth and dynamic conversion to retain the recorded harmonic
envelope on any piece of software best possible.
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The new AN-S3
(meaning NOT the AN-S3L-AG which is being slowly phased out) and AN-S4
there are now 6 versions of each, 1 Ohm, 4 Ohm, 9 Ohm, 16 Ohm, 36 Ohm
and 64 Ohm, the 1 Ohm is for all the Audio Note™ Io cartridges and the
rest are for other low output moving coils, such as
Dynavector, Denon,
Clearaudio, Koetsu,
Lyra, Goldbug,
van den Hul, Allerts,
Ortofon, Goldring
and Micro Benz.
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It is important
to appreciate the utmost importance of getting the impedance matching
between the cartridge coil and the primary of the transformer as close
as possible, we used to sell a transformer, the AN-S7, which had 6
switchable impedances, which was a great
help when determining which impedance suited a cartridge best,
however, the trade-off in sound quality from the
multible taps on the transformers and the switches were simply
too great.
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All Audio Note™
MC transformers are housed in solid copper chassis’s for best sound.
Despite this they are quite sensitive to positioning, and hum will
occur when they are too close to power cords, supplies or electric
motors and their associated wiring (from a separate turntable power
supply to the turntable itself for example), so careful positioning is
mandatory.
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Audio Note™ Analogue Products
Tone Arms.
All Audio Note™ AN-1s tone arms
are available with 6 wires for use with the Audio Note™ Io Ltd. moving
coil cartridge the two additional wires are for the DC feed to the
electromagnets from the power supply.
The Audio Note™ ARM One/TWO and
Three are now Audio Note™ rewired versions of the REGA RB250.
These three arms are very suitable for the Audio
Note™ IQ1, IQ2, IQ3 and IoI cartridges.
The heavier Io cartridges are not suited for these three arms.
The ARM One, Two and Three are
designed for the Audio Note™ AN-TT One and AN-TT Two turntables, but
will work very well on the AN-TT Three varieties as well as on most
other turntables.
The AN-1s arms are designed
specifically for the AN-TT Three turntables, but will work very well
on most other manufacturer’s turntables as well, if Audio Note™ is
provided with the necessary drawings, we can provide arm boards for
most other brands.
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Finest Conductor
Audio Note™ Analogue Products
Turntables
* All Audio Note™ turntables
will accommodate the ARM One, ARM Two and ARM Three without problems.
Arm boards are available for these arms for all AN-TT turntables,
please note that these arm boards also fit some later
Systemdek IIx
turntables, however, most older IIx’s have
the drop shaped armboard and we CANNOT
supply these.
* Early TT Ones and most
Systemdek IIx’s
have glass platters, the new TT One acrylic platter is NOT compatible
with the old glass platters, the spindle hole is different,
so it is not possible to fit a modern
acrylic platter to an old deck with a glass ditto.
* We also cannot supply spares
for any of the electronic IIxe
Systemdek tables, as we have no circuit
diagrams or parts lists. * We recommend the AN-1s arms for all the three motor decks, the AN-1s tone arm design was conceived as the ultimate interface between the cartridge and the turntable sub chassis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||