Audio Note Amps - I Don't Get It?

I'm going to get myself an Oto Se Signature Phono when one comes up at the right price to match my AN-Ks and LP12 and G99. Lovely. As you were....

Thanks, that is my intention as I said

I’ve never heard one. I do like the Snell speakers which Audio Note based their speaker on.

I've heard a few all-Audionote systems and I can see the appeal but it isn't the sound for me.

I've yet to hear an Audionote amp, pre amp or phono stage which I would call even barely adequate! In fact I would say they were ALL shite! How the hell they have such a following god only knows! I would take a £150 Japanese integrated over anything made by Audionote that I have heard so far. They have measured really bad as well, as reflected in the poor subjective performance.

It is 'the' 99

Yes it is 👍

I’ve removed a few posts because they were playing the man. I should’ve removed the first one at the time but hadn’t seen it until now. If someone disses something you love, don’t take it personally and please don’t make it personal. If everyone did that, I’d have been called a C#nt by every Sennheiser lover

As Frank Carson used to say
Maybe " it's the way you tell em " ?

I don’t recall a technical critique I recall a barely adequate comment. If we can hear better than that, and it’s factual, I’m all ears....

Why do you have that opinion?  Not all speakers behave the same.  Toe in a Vivid Audio speaker and I realy want to stab those aluminum drivers not just think about it.

The same goes in equal of not more measure for all rooms.  My room has a vaulted ceiling, and it certainly is the easiest room to get decent sound easily I have ever had. With some rooms you never come right.

I corner load my Cornscala Horns and the Klipsch KG 4's they just sound so mush better in the corners and no they do not bloat or boom.  Move them away form the walls and they sound anemic.

The Audio Notes are designed to be corner loaded, as are the Klipsch Horns & the Klipsch Cornwall = Corner/Wall, and the Voigt Corner Horn.
The Heresy's I had worked very well in a corner or close to a wall, where they were no longer a bit bass shy, placing them in the corners had no ill effects on the rest of the sound in any way. 

I have some Wharfedale Crystal 2-30's a 2 way  non vented box with a passive woofer and they shine when stuffed into a corner.
The Bigger brothers the Crystal 2-40 which I also have is a rear ported 3 way and they just choke up in the corners.
The La Scala can also work very well near the walls.

Horns work very well when in the corners or close to a wall. Doing that certainly took the bite out of the Avant Garde Duos a friend had, the lagging bass from the active bass bin I could never get right or come to terms with. Like Martin Logans yet to her any of them where that does not bug me.  He has now sold the Avant Garde's and bought Sonus Faber Amati's, those certainly would not work close to any boundaries. 

Another friend was battling to shift a pair of Unison Research Max 1's he took as a trade in his shop.  Until he corner loaded them, he sold them within a few weeks thereafter, it was chalk and cheese, they did not shout anymore.

Would I put my Vandersteens anywhere close to a wall, no not unless I was deaf, that is because they sound bloody awful if not given space. 
As did the B&W 805 Matrix, & the 804s but they were both pretty awful anyway.

Interesting, as I have never heard their speakers, something I must rectify, as there is an Audio Note Nut in our circle  

You’re dead right. I’ve had Js and Ks. They need space. I’ve never heard any conventional speaker sound anything other than awful near a corner. Max said you could use Glastonbury’s there and they were awful. Roy said you could use Elas there and they were terrible too. To me it’s just marketing to suck in folk with small rooms.

Ah now there's a speaker I was very impressed with! Marvellous.