dont mix with KONDO AUDIO NOTE JAPAN :) interesting story by the way, both has ongaku but totally different :) Thanks great video again

Very good brand in UK - they don't put a price list on the products

…well built ?? This was a good one 😂😂😂 -> Built like a $ 100.- cardboard box! Sold for many, many grands.

@@bikemike1118this is a fact.

98db Sensitive and Field Coil woofers .. Ya .. lol .. Adrian and Frederico were likely not surprised .. Yes sir.. Same goes for his son Daniel and Vincent ( from Montreal ) The entire brand brings the most passionate people into the fold. =) Im happy to hear you love it like we do =)

Great story !

Sounds Fun !

@@OCDHIFiGuy it sure could be..... Lots of music. Tons of fun to. Brighton is a lovely city to. We can smoke a cuban and have a scotch on the beach.

Aston Martin?! This analogy is weird. The one and only thing these two have in common is that their British!… AN wishes it had the same level of craftsmanship! They are rather made like very early MG‘s. And remember: Aston doesn’t even have proprietary motors in their cars! They buy them from Mercedes-AMG … and plant em in.

So cool to meet these principals of well made audio gear.

Sounds like fun !!

Yes ! Rock on 🤘

I know, right? "this dude is 70yrs old 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙" Youth is wasted on the young. It's a shame wisdom is wasted on the old. ;) Buddy Guy at 87 is a head bobbin' groove machine, playing clubs since the 50's! He pre-dates rock and roll! ... otoh Pres..., nevermind

I emailed you about this vid ^^ But you are absolutely right!

And he is very good with a guitar to ❤

Yeah not really :D listen to some rock on three way vintage JBLs and compare

@@sats87 oh i love a vintage 3-way! AN's speakers very much have that satisfying flavour..

Thanks 👍

Yes it's brilliant

I've never seen mikey this wild this crazy this passionate i'm slightly concerned........

It can fill a hall... Done it several times. People are walking around looking for subs 😂

@@AudioheavenDenmark do you have the cobra ? Very good amp , …when you look at it and think 28 per channel,….el34 …..huuuuuuu,mmm!? But then you hear it ….. :)

@@MsCorbacho ive been part of the cobra team from prototype 1 to finished product. It's a kick ass amp and awesome value

Glad you enjoyed it

In a typical British flat. The room must be on the smaller side... yes, called Field Coil drivers.. ;-) 😉

Thanks Sven !

Spent an hour with Peter today.. he's great 👍

Absolutely. He agreed to interview with me but said he was sick and had to get better... he never did.

What ?

Thx

Thanks !

Call me up...

I own Field Coil Drivers.. Handmade Feastrex with mono Tungar power supplies... lol...

@@OCDHIFiGuyIs your speaker single driver design?

With respect thats not correct, semi conductors generally suck. "transistor amplifiers sound poor for the simple reason that transistors are inferior amplifying devices. The word “semiconductor” really means what it says and it says it all, “half”-conductor, sonically this could be translated to mean half the signal! Which is really what it sounds like. Pure and simple, transistors are highly un-linear and need a lot of correction (feedback of some sort) to have a bandwidth wide enough to be able to reproduce any music signals, they are not natural voltage amplifiers. Likewise both the pentode or tetrode requires corrective feedback to lower the load sensitivity and improve bandwidth, they are less un-linear than transistors being high impedance devices that require matching from an output transformer. Thus they sound better when used well, especially when used single-ended or in pseudo triode mode by connecting the grids together. Pentodes and tetrodes are more efficient (give higher static power) and much cheaper than triodes, this price advantage is paid for in poorer linearity and therefore overall open loop power bandwidth and load stability, nature always gives with one hand and takes with the other! Directly heated triodes on the other hand are highly linear amplifying devices, the directly heated triode is the original voltage amplifier, the first, only and still the best, it responds well to better circuits, components and materials, but they are less efficient and more expensive than pentodes and tetrodes. Thus they require efficient speakers, with power output being at a premium price". excerpt from PQ I thought like you once but then Listened to Audionote now I understand a little better what I have bern chasing all these years.

I hear you, I was a tube guy and even had the AN Cobra, it sounded awesome. Some mornings it would give me fits when I turned it on, loud thump, had to mess with putting tubes in, it was fun at first. Before that I had lower price tube amps like Decware,Had and Primaluna they were mediocre. I just got burned out with the tubes so I landed on Pass Labs, a happy compromise, it’s dead quiet when I turn it on and off and I can just leave it on 24/7…

It's a good rant.. 👍 just like someday I'll find a Turntable that rivals digital.;-)

@@OCDHIFiGuy such a good rant you said it twice 🤣 in stereo.

@@oohtob6685 damn phone ! Lol

Awesome !

Thanks for the visit

Devore could only DREAM of a speaker like this. Talk about TOOL !! LOL. shiiii

@@OCDHIFiGuy I know, his speaker just looks similar and I did not know any better. I asked him do you have the version with the blue driver, and he told me I think you are looking for audionote. He was definitely correct.

There you go

Wow. Is that truth ?

@@OCDHIFiGuy yes, I remember when it happened. The products now are totally different from Kondo Japan. But Peter was the distributor for audio note, which was based out of Japan. After a legal battle, they became separate entities, with different products. Even today, some of the products share the same names but the companies now are entirely separate.

I added a letter from Kondo Japan, however, KZfaq looks like they took my post down. Search “dear friends of audio note Japan“ and you will see the letter by Mr. Kondo himself.

​@@OCDHIFiGuy It was so confusing to me to learn that there is Audio Note Japan, now called Kondo Audio Note, and Audio Note UK, especially because some of the products are named the same and look the same. What's going on here? It was further confusing to learn that apparently "Level 5" Audio Note UK Amps are actually hand made by Kondo Audio Note, so it seems. I could be wrong. Apparently Peter was in business with Kondo-San, an engineer who developed the original amplifier, and created the name Audio Note, until they had the equivalent of a nasty divorce after 20 years in business together. I've been trying to figure it out myself, because it's hard to know who to trust, and which company to buy from. Mike if you are thinking about becoming a distributor, I think you should do the following Google search precisely with the words below (I can't post links here). It'll take you to a 2012 forum thread at Audioreview with links to other forum posts publicly made by Peter and Kondo-San from the year 2000 about the split. It's remarkable that it's still online. What's even more remarkable is that they have both somehow kept the name Audio Note, while selling the same or similar products, and neither one fully rebranding. Google the following, it's the top result: audioreview "audio Note UK & Kondo Japan" Read every link provided on this page, and you can judge for yourself based upon the writings of Peter and Kondo-San what you make of the situation. Kondo Audio Note also has a website, as does Audio Note UK, and you can try to compare their offerings. I hope this helps.

@@OCDHIFiGuy No it's not the truth - Audio Note was started by Kondo-San in the 1970s - Peter Qvortrup ran Audio Innovations and was also an importer - for Audio Note Japan. Peter decided to partner with Kondo and make Audio Note a household name - Peter put up ALL Of the money, He took AN products to the US and paid for ALL of the audio shows and got the product a distributor - without PQ - nobody here would have ever heard the name Audio Note. Kondo basically designed a total of 6 products - the Ongaku, M7 M8 preamps and the Gaku-Ons, the silver cables and the IO cartridges). PQ knew that this would not work because there aren't enough people able to spend $89,000 for an integrated amp (1989 price!). Peter had his own engineers and they were the engineers who cam up with the OTO/SORO/Meishu/ M1-M6 preamps and all the level 3 and below products - and these units NOT the Kondo units were the big sellers. AN UK made and designed ALL of the Digital (CD players, Transports and DACS) and all of the turntables and arms and lower level cartridges - AN UK also made all of the speakers. Peter and AN UK were responsible for over 80% of the sales and income - more when you consider that it was Peter who was actually selling all the AN Japan gear outside of Japan. PQ got all the distributors, all the dealers, and paid for all the shows to make Kondo famous. He does all the work and puts up all the money and should get nothing I guess? Then when the financial crisis in 1997 hit - Peter told the Japan plant that they had to scale back that as an importer he could not buy all the stuff being shipped because it wasn't selling. Kondo like a little baby - complained that Peter should buy it regardless if he could sell it. Then Kondo - unilaterally gave the whole business to another importer DM Holdings - Peter was forced to sue to protect his business. And AN UK WAS the business by that point. PQ won in court. Now what is the "truth" in a divorce? We shall not know - but to me, the key points are this - Kondo only ever designed and built the absolute top-of-the-line components. The peanut gallery that always claims that PQ stole the company makes Kondo out to be David vs Goliath - yeah David who is selling $250,000 Gaku Ons - some David. All the products for the bottom 99% could only afford AN UK gear then or now. So the argument is moot. Lastly, How did affect Kondo? Not in the least - Audio Note Japan was and still is a company - they never went out of business - Kondo put his name in front so it is now Kondo Audio Note. Kondo was not impacted by one iota! All he lost was all of PQ's money in marketing and sales. Kondo had to find other distributors - he did. It's not like Kondo was booted to the street and wound up homeless - he still had his plant and all his employees and he still had the company name Audio Note Japan. And then people still argue that Peter "stole his designs" - they're not even the same designs - Kondo put out $32,000 Push pull amps - PQ believes in the Single Ended Triode - Kondo was not - they were putting out PP - they disagreed on the sonics and the designs. Moot now too since Kondo passed away many years ago and the company discontinued most of Kondo San's designs - so perhaps not quite as timeless as the peanut gallery thought. Meanwhile the AN UK OTO integrated amp for like $3800 designed by Guy Adams that was sold in 1995 is still selling to this very day in 8 versions - and won amplifier of the year last year in Asia. The "timeless classic" still selling - vs all the amps Kondo has discontinued. Guy Adams should be the household name. His amplifier is a rock star - and an amp people can afford - I've had mine since 2003 - and never had a problem.

Said like a guy in the know... Jim knows what's up !

Lol. No doubt.. ridiculous

Was fun !

No

For sure. AC/DC BIB as well

@@OCDHIFiGuy absolutely agree. Nice choice. You know who else actually has really damn good freaking recordings! Billy Idol! Dude. His original CDs from the 1980’s are unbelievable sounding. Rebel yell, charmed life, vital idol and whiplash smile. Nuts. Incredible fidelity. Anyhow. Love your video. Love your passion.

Kondo is also more expensive than audio note If i am not wrong , ( not 100% sure)

More than anything, I get the vision and the owners personality.. Hifi is far more than the silly boxes we peddle...

Absolutely

Lol. Sing it for us live on my Wed Livestream !

Hi, will they sell components to diy folk?

Not sure I had a company do it for me that is a manufacture of other equipment and I know the engineer. Vujade audio@@jdekong3945

I asked broad questions about his company. I didn't ask about digital gear either..

@@OCDHIFiGuy I was just being humorous, in reference to the audio shrink rant I had just watch before. I'm a vinyl guy and the more people stay into digital the better, bin digging has become hard enough as it is.