![]() Indeed, I reviewed the AN-E/Lx not that long ago as well as the slightly smaller AN-J/Spe, which I happily enjoyed for thirteen years ( ). The AN-E speaker has been reviewed time and time again over the decades from reviewers all around the world. Peter and his team worked on the speaker over the years, using vastly better cabinetry and drivers and changing the port dimensions to create what are now the Audio Note K, J, and E series of loudspeakers. Peter Qvortrup (the founder of Audio Note UK) was dissatisfied with replacement models from the new Snell Acoustics and bought the rights to the original designs. Unfortunately, Peter Snell passed away, leaving the company to a new engineer. Snell Acoustics under Peter Snell created the Type E speaker along with their Type J and Type K, and the famous Type A. The Audio Note UK AN-E range of loudspeakers has been around in one form or other for about forty years, starting way back as the Snell Acoustics Type E. The AN-E/SPx AlNiCo is largely, if not completely, designed for people who own complete Audio Note stereo systems.īut we live in an inclusive society, so I shall endeavour to include the folks who may tiptoe in the land of crazy or who are new to Audio Note UK. This review is largely for the people who have bought into the sound of Audio Note and are deciding which of the seventeen versions (more on that later) of the Audio Note E model they should consider. This isn’t to say that terrific results can’t be attained with those impressive designs and materials, but this speaker is an evolution on a platform that I have ultimately found to sound just plain right. They don’t have built-in servo subs or massive ceramic horn mouths or white papers from the National Research Council or various pundits on forums raving about the superiority of ribbons. Yes I bought them even without them having a myriad of technobabble or having multiple 15-inch Kevlar woofers or piston tweeters. And yet you can put me in this land of crazy as I wound up buying them. One look at these speakers and another look at their price will put the AN-E/SPx AlNiCo in the land of crazy no matter what I say about them. It isn’t ten feet tall, doesn’t have beryllium or diamond or electrostatic tweeters, nor is it made with 300-lb steel bracing or other rocket ship materials. This is a two-way loudspeaker with an 1-inch silk dome tweeter and an 8-inch woofer. The Audio Note AN-E/SPx AlNiCo speakers are clearly not for most readers reading this review. I will start this review with a big dose of reality.
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