![]() ![]() In front on the floor are the Audio Note Empress Silver Parallel Single Ended Triode monoblocks (2a3 for 8 watts per channel).įor those interested - Hi-Fi Critic magazine in the UK had three reviewers cover this turntable. ![]() įrom left is: Audio Note E/SPx AlNiCo Hemp speakers, Audio Note M3 Phono Balanced Preamp, TT3 with(Arm3/II tone arm and Audio Note's IQ 3 MM Cartridge) and TT3 PSU1 Power supply. Coupled with Audio Note's in house designed and manufacturers tone arms. So enter the modern Voyd Reference only sexier and better. I grew up on CD and have slowly gotten into Vinyl with Fisher, Duals, Pioneer, Nad 533 (A Rega P2 Clone made by Rega for NAD), and TT2 sold it and bought another one when I moved to HK after trying Roksan, Clearaudio, Thorens, and VPI. I received it today, began listening and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Crazy is relative I suppose as I will be viewed as crazy by some to buy this thing. Now it should be noted that Audio Note also makes a juggernaut TT3 called the TT3 Reference which is a cray $100,000+ beats with a Tube power supply for each motor So three massive amplifier boxes plus a Speed Controller plus the table so these are for uber wealthy somewhat crazy clientele. The new TT3 is still a three motor turntable using suspended design with an External Power supply for speed control and switching from 33 to 45. They still make the TT1 and TT2 mind you. ![]() The Audio Note TT2 was the next closest sounding thing for about 1/5th the price so I bought that.įast forward roughly 20 years later and after about a decade working on turntables - Audio Note has now released a somewhat affordable (for them) TT3. Oh, and it was WAY out of my price range. I wanted the Voyd Reference but alas Papst - the company making the motors no longer did. My dealer owned that Voyd Reference and was a dealer for Linn, Rega, Project, Oracle and Audio Note among a few others. If you remember the Voyd Reference if was a monster with 3 motors and a separate power supply to control the motor. He made a two motor version and called it - aptly TT2 for 2 motors. He upgraded the tables with better motors and and rebadged the SystemDek IIs as Audio Note TT1. Audio Note's Peter Qvortrup in the mid 1990s bought out Systemdek and Voyd Reference. ![]()
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