Interesting unpublished Audio Tekne photo

[gian60]

Doing order in my room i found this old photo that mr Imai gave to me in 1994

This is my preamp i had in 1993,was the top he did in 1986,all with super permalloy trans,line good and phono fantastic

 

[gian60]

my preamp

 

[gian60]

tp 8601

 

[gian60]

My old 8716 CB,made in carbon block

 

[gian60]

passive 4 way network
and passive network mono with super permalloy trans

 

[gian60]

Turntable acp 8801 all made in carbon block with platter on air
and hand made carbon block tonearm

 

[gian60]

Horn speaker 4 way at Imai home with ALE DE series,in the middle between the top DAP and the economic D
with woofer ALE W 4000 and bass box all in Carbon Block

 

[gian60]

Hand made superpermalloy trans

 

[gian60]

Pre line and mono phono with superpermalloy top and box made in carbon block,
only one made

 

[gian60]

First amp and prototype made by Audio Tekne

 

[Audiophile Bill]

My goodness, Gian. You have had some serious gear over the years. I do like the look of those amps, crossovers and horns.

Do you miss the sound of this setup? Bet it was phenomenal?

 

[gian60]

From 1994 for ten years i had this pre and mono amp TM 8501 with 300B Western Electric and ultra size super permalloy trans
then 10 years later i sold and bought AudioNote M10 and Gakuon,more power 50 watt instead 15 but Audio Tekne sound was more natural and magic on the mid

 

[gian60]

If we want to change need to sell what we have,but for me was a pity to have sold ML 6B,Yamamura,Audio tekkie and ANJ M 10 preamp,Japan Hal amp Design,Dyssanayake preamp and FAL integrated,but we cannot have all and all of us are very lucky to own what we have

Its a pity sell this things

 

[jeff1225]

Thank you for positing all of this. This equipment is amazing, my favorite has to be the turntable.

 

[gian60]

I listen many times turntable,my friend has but sound is little dark,he put also a Graham arm with Lyra to have more open sound
Too much Graphyte give sound dark
My vyger Atalris is much more transparent,natural and dynamic

 

[cjfrbw]

Transformers 'n Tubes can be mystical in sound quality. Brother, that Audio Tekne stuff is the outer fringes of transformer mania.

 

[kach22i]

From an Industrial Design standpoint, all the black certainly represents the era, and the simplistic form follows function reins in a clear manner.

I like that wall/cabinet of prototypes collection a lot.