The 6111WA tube is soldered in place and Audio Note claims its lifespan should exceed 100,000 hours.Īudio Note offers its Zero electronics with a choice of fascia plates – silver alloy, or black acrylic. The transport is a modified Philips L1210. The CD player features a single 6111WA tube in the analogue output stage, with a Philips TDA 1543 filterless DAC used without up-sampling. The amplifier employs four ECL82 output tubes (two per channel), run in Class A up to about 80 per cent of their power and then switched to Class A/B. There are additional buttons for volume and input selection that, unfortunately, have no effect on the IZero amplifier.īoth amp and CD player feature tubes. The Zero CD/II CD player is only a little less Spartan: you get the usual operational controls, a single set of unbalanced analogue outputs, plus a digital output.Ī remote handset is supplied with the CD player and there are buttons for direct track-selection and fast- search, a button to dim or turn off the illuminated display, plus buttons for repeat (one track or the whole disc), random track playback and time – either track elapsed time, remaining time (track or disc) and total elapsed time. There’s a volume control and an input selector, and that’s it! The IZero integrated amplifier offers four line-level inputs, plus a set of loudspeaker outputs. Audio Note takes a less-is- more approach, so don’t expect to find anything more than the absolute basics. In keeping with the minimalist ethos of high end, each Zero System component is a simple no-frills design. And it’s when you put the whole thing together that the magic begins. But, at the same time, there’s the promise of something more: an overall result that’s greater than the sum of the parts. Individually, each item boasts sonically excellent results which compare favourably with similarly priced (and more expensive) competition. It offers high-level performance at prices that are realistic. After all, it’s not easy to produce outstanding results within tight budget constraints, but Audio Note’s Zero System aims to do just that. ![]() Nevertheless, some high-end manufacturers relish the challenge of designing products that deliver a taste of high-end performance at more wallet-friendly prices. When a manufacturer sets out to employ specialised military-grade internal components that are large and massively over-specified, you can’t expect prices to be low. High-end audio tends to be a tad expensive. Makers of some of the most exotic hi-fi on the planet, Audio Note's Zero system is, says Jimmy Hughes, refreshingly affordable
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