Four Noble pots line up on the silvery faceplate from left to right, representing Inputs, Tape Monitor, Balance and Volume.īeing the pride and joy of Audio Note preamp line, the audio circuit of the “Level 3” M3 preamplifier is hand made and hard wired, using Audio NoteTM tantalum resistors, Cerafine filter caps, pure copper foil signal capacitors and Black Gate de-coupling capacitors. According to Audio Note, the M3 platform was a result of the pursuit of a “timelessness” in AN’s designs, which had “no regard for the dogma ruling at the time and regard for commercial expediency reviewer preferences or prejudices.” The M3 sports six inputs using 5687WB series zero-feedback anode follower line stage with output transformer, plus a phono input using three 6072A double triodes as input stage in conjunction with a completely passive zero-feedback RIAA EQ network and high quality ELMA switches. Based on this platform, Audio Note believes upgrades of component and material quality are the answer to increasing fidelity, culminating in the supreme M8.Īcknowledging the finesse of classic amplifiers like McIntosh 275 and Marantz 8 on its website, Audio Note states that it doesn’t believe in “selling old wines in new bottles”. The M series pre-amplifiers begins with the $699 M Zero and increases to the silver-faceplate, large chassis M3 as the optimized pre-amplifier platform, incorporating dual mono double chock tube rectified power supplies, optimized output transformers and high gain line stage. Audio Note’s M3 pre-amp is the matching companion to its line of single-ended directly heated 300B monoblock amplifiers in Level 3, such as the recently-reviewed Quest.
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