audio note jinro
about the audio note jinro
The Audio Note Ongaku has long been THE product to beat among people who prize the immediacy, palpability, and musicality of the finest single-ended triode (SET) amplifiers.
The Audio Note Jinro is part of that unique family. A brother, if you like, employing the same circuit, the same 211 valve, all implemented with humbler parts.
The Audio Note Jinro is completely handmade. The bespoke power-supply choke and drive-stage transformers are labours of love.
the legendary jinro
Everything in the Jinro is hand-wired, point to point. Parts are fastened to the chassis rigidly and ruggedly, and while there exist some separate boards for certain parts, they aren’t PCBs.
It uses the same circuit design and topology as the legendary Audio Note Ongaku amplifier. However, where the Ongaku uses silver wherever possible, such as for all transformer windings, the Jinro instead uses copper.
211 & 4242e valves.
The Audio Note Jinro is a Pure Class A Singled Ended valve amplifier that uses the highly regarded 211 triode valve, producing a level of performance that is radically superior to the vast majority of current designs. The 211 valve itself is physically a large valve, and sonically it is as big and full of a sound as you can imagine, much mightier than say a 300B, and that is no easy feat!
Audio Note are the only Hi-Fi manufacturer, or manufacturer of any kind that we know of to actually design their very own 211 valve (called a 4242E), that has been designed solely for how it sounds! It is nearly impossible to imagine the Jinro being improved on, but drop a pair of 4242e valves into the amp and it takes it to an incredible new level!
jinro review.
I love the Audio Note Jinro! Its overall sound was very subtly sweet, with a midrange that was soft—timbrally, but not temporally—with an abundance of that often-noted-yet-never-explained “SET sound” that allows solo voices and instruments to stand musically and spatially proud of the rest of the mix. The Jinro played melodies with unsurpassed flow and momentum, including those in Elgar’s Sospiri, recorded by Paul Goodwin and the English Chamber Orchestra and allowed even the most up-tempo music—the Replacements’ Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash comes to mind—to sound nearly propulsive. Yet the Jinro distinguished itself by allowing notes a realistically generous amount of natural decay—again, without the slightest sense of rhythmic lagging. The Audio Note Jinro was beautifully, enchantingly involving; it sounded clear and clean and pretty much correct. A wonderful, wonderful amplifier! Words by Art Dudley at Stereophile.
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