Audio Note AZ-One Speaker - Manual

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The Audio Note™ Absolute Zero AZ-One Loudspeaker.
INTRODUCTION.
First of all thank you for buying an Audio Note™ product, I hope that it will
reward you with many years of good quality music and reliable service.
As a company our main aim is to design and manufacture equipment which gives
you the maximum sonic performance for the price and to do this we use many
unconventional solutions and the AZ-One speaker is no exception to this, so it is
important that you read this brief manual carefully, in order for you to get the
best performance and sound from your new speakers.
The AZ-One is designed to be used without a front cover or grill, and is therefore
not supplied with one. A cover can be easily made from transparent foam and
four dots of Velcro!
As with all Audio Note™ speakers, no corners have been cut in terms of
component and driver quality despite the modest price of the AZ-One, the woofer
is the new 5 inch Vifa paper cone unit combined with an upgraded version of the
AN-K's 3/4" tweeter featured in the two-way line-up together with a heavy duty
crossover with air core inductors, silver plated speaker terminals and Audio Note
AN-D internal wiring.
All the Absolute Zero models share the following design features,
1.) Rear loaded folded quasi parabolic horn with rear facing mouth.
2.) Floorstanding with built-in spikes.
3.) High efficiency, and more importantly best possible dynamic power transfer
behaviour to maximise acoustic output to power input.
In our quest to deliver a compact high sensitivity speaker with good room
interface we have reinvestigated and re-evaluated all the main principles of horn
loaded cabinet designs, and this knowledge coupled with our expertise in system
dispersion and associated crossover design, has resulted in a speaker system that