![]() If you would like to sell your hifi to us, keep reading or just get in touch. Browse through our stock of amplifiers, turntables, cd-players and loudspeakers to see what we have to offer right now. For customers and audio enthusiasts further afield, do not worry - we can ship our products safely anywhere in the world. We also host a brand new demo room which is available by appointment for our local customers. Trading since 2013, maybe you know us from ebay where everything started? Since then the business has grown and early in 2021 we moved the business to bigger premises in central Warrington Cheshire to meet the increasing demand for second hand high-end hifi. You will find anything from classic hifi from Garrard, Tannoy, Thorens, Leak or Quad to contemporary brands like Naim, Kef, Primare, Linn among many others. We buy and sell second hand audio equipment, offering a wide range of preloved quality equipment including valve amplifiers, speaker systems, rare cartridges, turntables, tonearms, streamers and cd players from quality brands. These materials, when matched correctly, marry the low and high frequencies seamlessly, providing the best level of performance possible in the real world of acoustics.We are an independent second hand hifi dealer based in the UK. This has led us to favor good, old fashioned paper for the woofer cone and impregnated silk for the dome tweeter. We at Audio Note are keenly aware of this and have deliberately chosen drive units whose sonic signatures are as closely matched as possible. It may be less obvious and audible with some types of music, but ultimately the chosen material will always imprint some of its own signature on whatever sound is reproduced. No instrument manufacturer in their right mind would dream of making a trumpet from carbon fibre or Beryllium for example, or a cello or violin from aluminium or plastic (not if they were serious anyway!), so no matter how the crossover is designed, this sonic signature will be present when the speaker reproduces music. It has become very fashionable to use all manner of exotic materials (beryllium, diamond, carbon fibre, ceramics etc.) as cone materials in modern drivers, mainly because it gives the impression that the manufacturer in question is making great strides in their research into better sounding speakers.The sad fact is none of thesematerials work as intended, as they all have their owndistinct sonic signature. This is an aspect of performance that cannot be measured by even the most sophisticated test equipment it can ONLY be judged by listening. It is vitally important that the sound and characteristics of an individual drive unit are complimentary to those of its chosen partner, so that when an instrument is reproduced by both drive units (which is almost always the case), the upper range does not sound detached from the lower range and visa versa. This ensures that each loudspeaker in a stereo pair matches aʻmaster curveʼ, and also its partner.Īnother much overlooked area of acoustics is the material choice for the drivers. Therefore, to obtain the best possible combination of drivers and crossovers, we have developed a dynamic matching process. Many loudspeaker manufacturerʼs will tell you that they provide “computer matched” crossovers, and whilst this may be true in one sense (each crossover may have been matched to have the exact same capacitance, inductance and resistance) this essentially “passive” method does not adequately take into consideration the mechanical and acoustic variance present in the drive units themselves, where minute differences in acoustic behaviour will result in quite substantial differences in performance and sound. Unlike many ʻbook shelfʼ designs, the AX-ONE is relatively efficient and offers the amplifier an easy ʻloadʼ, making it highly suitable for our range of superior quality, low powered valve amplifiers.Ĭonsistent performance is a major issue in loudspeaker design and unfortunately all drive units vary slight from each other, even if they look the same and have the same basic specification. The AX-ONE is a compact ʻbook shelfʼ design, using two drive units per cabinet to cover a very wide frequency response, given its modest dimensions. ![]()
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