1/7/2024 0 Comments Audio note an e review![]() Interconnects were a mix of Audio Note AN-Vx silver Litzenduringly wonderful stuff that I bought over a decade ago and still loveand Shindo Silver. Luckily for me, long speaker cables are a normal part of my reference-system setup, and my 20' pair of tube-happy Auditorium 23 speaker cables (stranded copper sheathed in fabric and terminated with gold-plated banana plugs) seemed perfectly happy with these tubes. And because there were clearly good reasons for the Jinro's weight and sizeno space is wasted inside its sheet-metal chassis, and its extraordinary weight is accounted for not by a stupid-thick faceplate but by the necessary metal content within all those transformersI happily let the Jinro sleep on the hardwood floor, next to instead of atop my Box Furniture D3S rack. I love my home and I love my furnitureand I especially love audio gear that accommodates rather than confounds those things. Dave brought the big Audio Note amp in the back of his Volvo station wagon, and he and I carried it inside my house together, as befits any home furnishing too long and too heavy to cuddle in the arms of one man. So it was with my review sample of the Jinro, which was delivered to me by Dave Cope of Triode & Co., who works for Audio Note as one of the manufacturer's US representatives. In fact, the size and weight of the Audio Note Jinro combine to create a big problem of little consequence: Where does a 85-lb, 26"-long amplifier sit?Īnywhere it likes, I supposeor, put another way, any location to which one can carry it without opening old wounds. The Jinro rests on six feet: When you weigh 85 lbs and stand only 11" tallbut a full 26" long!four feet just won't do. ![]() My only complaint is that I preferred the chassis design of the older Ongaku-type amplifiers, with the separate faceplate and the more structured front end this new designwhich trades all of that for a one-piece top that's bent, apparently on a press brake, to create an angled surface for the two control knobsseems distinctly less luxurious. Parts are fastened to the chassis rigidly and ruggedly, and while there exist some separate boards for certain parts, they aren't PCBs: Everything in the Jinro is hand-wired, point to point. The proprietary power-supply choke and drive-stage transformers were obviously labors of lovethe sorts of thing one sees less and less these days, in any field of endeavor. As with all of the Kondo or Kondo-derived designs I've seen from Audio Note over the years, my review sample of the Jinro was completely handmade, and quite well, at that. ![]()
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