Audio Tekne top end gear?

Nobody has ever listened to top end Audio Tekne gear? [bumping the thread]

Thanks. I agree that the Audio Tekne gear is similar in spirit to Allnic - the other "all-nickel" transformer gear which appears to use transformer coupling extensively in pres and phono stages. I don't much about the Shindo and Doshi - certainly not to know if they have a thing about nickel too (though would have figured if Nick Doshi is using the JH50 as a building base, saturation might be an issue (for Allnic and Tekne, the tubes appear to be run at lower voltages)). I saw Albert's change and await his further comments.

I wondered whether I should just take the plunge but decided not to. Funny thing is, a similar vintage pair of Tekne 2A3 monoblocks has just come up too. Don't know what they originally went for but the newer versions of the 300B PP amps are serious yen (and not much of it is spent on making it pretty).

I actually got the amps. They are pure Class A, tube-rectified (5Z3), all transformer-coupled, PP 2A3 monoblocks. They were, as advertised, an older pair. Initial listening tests were better than I expected but they do not wield tremendous amounts of power. I will try them on 8 ohms tomorrow to see if that does better. I expect in the end I will have to use them only for the mids and treble if I keep them.

I hope to get in contact with Imai-san this week and find out all I can about them.

Ygk,

Thanks very much for clarifying that. Most of that info seems to be available in Japanese on Imai-san's website but while some of the site is in English, it is not entirely understandable in some cases.

The ones I bought are an older model of push-pull 2A3s. The model name is the TM 8401. Would you have, or be able to obtain, any info on them?

Thanks.
I would have said they were 10+ years old. I'd love to have any info Imai-san could provide.

Jonathan,Thanks. I am in Japan and will look him up. His website suggests he is still in Hachioji. I did not know if he was amenable to a visit. I'm going to bet he has something like a Final which has been tweaked within an inch of it's life.