Audio Note’s Adrian Ford-Crush maintains a sweet vinyl stash. So whenever time allows, I hide out in his room and check out the sounds. For this show, all the way from London, Ford-Crush brought Count Basie’s fantastic Roulette recording Chairmen of the Board, a Blue Note Classics edition of Hank Mobley’s hard bop treatise No Room for Squares, Cannonball Adderley’s Quintet Plus, and Mad Professor’s 40 Years of Dub.
He also brought a very affordable (by audiophile standards) Audio Note system to play his vinyl: a TT Three Turntable with PSU1 ($9410), IQ 3 MM Phono Cartridge ($1311), Arm Three/II Tonearm ($2465), and M5 Phono Pre Amplifier ($15,840). For those smaller, silver discs, he brought a CD4.1X Integrated CD Player ($14,331). Amplification was provided by two 18Wpc Conquest Silver Signature mono power amplifiers ($30,170/pair). The loudspeakers were AN-E SPx Ltd Field Coil ($65,000/pair). Cables, of course, were also by Audio Note.
Much of this system has been at past shows, but the field-coil loudspeakers were new, at least to me. As with all Audio Note systems, the sound was pure, engaging, and affecting.
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