#Audio note jinro review update#

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#Audio note jinro review update#

When the news broke in June that Audio Research had been acquired by AR Tube Audio Corporation, a privately owned corporation that includes Valerio Cora of Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer Acora Acoustics as a directorsee Industry Update in this issueI unboxed the I/50 and set it up in my listening room. However, with the uncertainty back then about the company's ownership, I postponed the review. I was planning to review the latest product from Audio Research, the I/50 integrated amplifier, which costs $5500, earlier this year. 'Every now and again, when I want to be reminded of the magic it brings to my music, I set it up, plug in the tubes, and spend an evening spoiling my ears,' I wrote for an article in Ken Kessler's 2020 book on the history of Audio Research. Four decades later, I still have that SP-10. 'The SP-10 presented information in a more coherent, less distorted manner than any preamp I've tried,' I wrote in the review, concluding that 'the SP-10 made me realize how many good records I owned.' I purchased the SP-10 and brought the preamplifier with me when I moved to the US. I reviewed this two-box, tubed preamplifier in the May 1984 issue of the English magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review. The first true high-end component I owned was an Audio Research SP-10.