Audio Note Kondo Ongaku
Driver and output transformers are fully silver wired an perma 50 nickel c core and the mains transformer is a fully.
Audio note kondo ongaku. There is no denying that audio note kondo ongaku is a legend dream and an inspiration. The audio note uk gaku on mono power amplifiers are pure class a parallel singled ended valve amplifiers that use a pair of the highly regarded 211 vt4 c triode valves per chassis producing a level of performance that is radically superior to the vast majority of current designs. Audio note s ongaku was born this year instantly attracted attentions from audiophile around the world. Later they had a bitter fallout and after lawsuits kondo san lost use of the name audio note and began using the name kono ksl.
Circuit which fully utilize the merits of 211. Years later the japanese and uk entities of audio note split up with kondo passing away a few years after that during ces 2006 and now the world has an updated version of the audio note uk ongaku to enjoy. Audio note 2 watt tantalum resistors have been used throughout. The best circuit designed to retain high linearity and low distortion characteristic of 211.
All capacitors are either black gate electrolytic or audio note uk silver foil. Kondo the creator of audio note japan hiroyasu kondo founded audio note japan in 1976 and since that date audio note japan has been manufacturing premium audio reproduction products. Ongaku s magic and its good comments are still spinning around the world without slowing down. Audio note s vacuum tube amplifiers started shipping overseas.
My first tube amplifier triode was based on mr kondo s design. Another amplifier that i made for janusz featured a silver output transformer to get even closer to the legend. Hi fi choice audiophile from uk and the absolute sound from us reported their surprises and appreciations about the good. Now audio note japan manufacture equipment will bear the logo kondo.
To help exploit the potential of the ongaku as much as possible 47 laboratory s pitracer cd transport served in this review as the reference source in the respective company of audio note s own 65k dac5 signature the 34k dac5 special and wadia s 10k 27ix v3 0 decoding computer. Reviewers from leading audio magazines e g. All transformers are our own in house custom designed and manufactured devices. The latter established audio note uk and together they presented and shook the world with kondo san s designs primarily the ongaku and the m7 preamp which bore the audio note name.
This was the beginning of our cooperation and the entrance into the world of high.