“High Performance Audio” design brief. And Music suffers for it. The design of the AN-E Loudspeaker, by contrast, calls for a cabinet made from materials that complement the workings of the chosen drive units. Instead of trying...
The Audio Note™ AN-E is a highly versatile loudspeaker which will provide satisfying performance in most listening environments. For optimal tonal balance, the AN-E should be used on a stand of 24 - 27cm (10 inches) in height, for best results, use spiked high-mass stands that can hold the speaker so firmly that even if the top of the speaker is pushed, it will not move at all.
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3.) Now to really difficult rooms, such as rooms where little or no wall space is available or very long and narrow rooms for example, Position the speaker facing each other, believe it or not the AN-E’s dispersion is so good that this position in some rare instances work better than any alternatives, in a narrow long room, the speakers can be positioned using the side walls the way the rear walls are used in 2.) above, but with the speakers at a very steep angle (i.e.,...
Before making any connections always turn off your amplifier! The length and type of speaker cable used in your system will have an audible effect. The AN-E is wired internally with a high quality Audio Note™ cable. It is recommended that you use a similar type of speaker cable in order to maintain the tonal balance and dynamic characteristics that we designed into the AN-E.
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The input to one pair of terminals will be fed to both sets of terminals. The facility to split the crossover on the AN-E allows the speakers to be operated in a bi-wired or bi-amplifier mode.
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Figure 4 shows an alternative method for using two stereo amplifiers to bi-amp your Audio Note™ speakers. both channels of a stereo amplifier driving one loudspeaker system. Using this method,, both channels of one stereo amplifier are used to drive the HF units in the two loudspeakers while both channels of the second...
Right or the Left channel input and not a mix of the two. It is advisable to use amplifiers of a similar quality and input sensitivity when bi-amping Audio Note™ loudspeakers.
E its enviable reputation will be revealed. We expect the AN-E to have a running in period of about 100 hours – for the average listener, this takes about a month, based on three hours of listening per day.
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