Audio Note Quest Power Amplifier

*In accordance with the wishes of Audio Note, this product cannot be purchased by mail order, so will always show as 'out of stock' here, if you would like to purchase one please get in contact for more information*

*Audio Note items are supplied to order, please allow approximately 8 weeks for build time*

The Quest amplifiers are the next level up from the Audio Note Conqueror. They are monoblocks so naturally have independent power supplies per channel, which as is customary with Audio Note are valve rectified (with a 5U4G tube) and choke smoothed. Various different versions are available, the major changes are as follows: the Quest comes with copper foil paper in oil capacitors and Beyschlag resistors, on the Quest Silver you get uprated output transformers (C-Core) and the Quest Silver Signature you get even higher quality output transformers, Tantalum resistors and Cerafine capacitors in selected locations. All models are available with silver aluminium or black acrylic fascias. There is a low gain version available for each model which replaces the 6SN7 input valves with 6J5 valves, these are especially recommended for use with active pre amplifiers or efficient speakers, where the high gain of the standard version is too much and where noise needs to be reduced to a minimum. There is no difference in price between the High and Low gain versions.

They have been specifically engineered for sonic performance rather than technical specification, and fulfil all Audio Note (UK) Level 3 criteria:

Pure Class A operation, Zero Negative Feedback, Single Ended Output Stage, Valve Rectification, Directly Heated Triode operation & Materials and component quality

Technical Specifications:

Input Impedance: 100KOhm, Line Level
Input Sensitivity: 160mV standard version/3.3V Low Gain version
Maximum Output: 8 Watts RMS  per channel into 4 or 8 Ohm loads
Channel Balance: +/- 0.3dB
Valve Complement: 2 x 5U4G (1 per chassis), 2 x 300B (1 per chassis) & 2 x 6SN7 or 2 x 6J5 (Low Gain) (1 per chassis)
Unit Weight: 27.5 kg (per amplifier)
Unit Dimensions (HxWxD): 195mm x 205mm x 500mm (per amplifier)
Mains Input: AC 100-120V/220-240V 50/60Hz
Max. Power Consumption: 200 Watts