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    Visit to Clarisys Auditoriums + CH Precision System in Spokane, Washington

    I hope you enjoyed your time listening to the Auditoriums, I had lots of fun setting up the room with Florian last weekend (moving those speakers around is certainly a good workout !) - he mentioned that he had a guest coming over from the UK, so we wanted to get the room just right for you - I...
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    Visit to Clarisys Auditoriums + CH Precision System in Spokane, Washington

    I was over in Switzerland last weekend to help Florian collect the Auditoriums from Roy's place (a nice trip to France) - I also helped with the original installation at Roy's back In December. I've known Roy for many years and insisted to Florian that he got the 'world exclusive' on the...
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    Ron Resnick Launches Audio Cafe LLC, a New Clarisys Audio Dealer

    Greetings from the UK, Mr Resnick - welcome to the Clarisys family
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    Goldmund Telos amplifiers

    The Telos 280 has been replaced by the Telos 300, this is a much better amplifier (incorporates some new 'NextGen' technology and improvements to the power supply) - big step up from JOB, but you will also need a good pre-amp (currently using my T300 with a Mimesis 37S NextGen)
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    All New Clarisys Audio Minuet Loudspeakers !

    Hi Florian, hope you're well my friend - really looking forward to Munich.... and something in Edinburgh as well, this Spring !
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    All New Clarisys Audio Minuet Loudspeakers !

    The build quality and sound quality are excellent, the manufacturing team in Vietnam are true craftsmen and passionate about their products - a real labour of love - the high-end 'scene' in Vietnam is incredible, they are serious about this stuff
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    The Joy of 7.5 ips Tapes!

    You might want to do some research into head-gaps, tape speeds, wavelengths and extinction frequencies
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    GAIA

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    The New Integrateds: An Urban Renewal?

    Interestingly, a well known and respected reviewer in the UK has just passed comment on an integrated amp that he has just written about in the Jan 2019 edition of HiFi Plus - stating that this particular product 'might just be the musical benchmark in high-end integrated amps' (he has also...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    I did not mean to insinuate that designers of audio equipment do not take account of phase/time errors and distortion but that most of them (especially in speaker crossover and amplifier design) do not seem to be that concerned about eliminating it. As mentioned, I know of one manufacturer that...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    I probably should have called them 'drive unit cables' - I assume that the system uses some kind of multicore cable or a number of individual cables that make up the 'speaker cable' as a whole Apologies if my use of the inverted commas was upsetting.
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    I think the Kyron makes use of a digital crossover (possibly by DEQX ?) and Class D amps (N-Core ?) and a loom of various 'speaker' cables - the output from the crossover may well be time aligned, but the output from a Class D amp won't be (there will be a big amount of time distortion between...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Hi Peter, no I'm not referring to that speaker as I have not heard it (and thus, cannot comment on the results of the design) However, I do find it encouraging that the company in question is (within their own limits as purely a speaker manufacturer only) taking the matter of time distortion...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Hi, yes you will definitely need some control over the delay times in an A/V system (akin to those that I used for large PA installations in my 'live' sound days) as this is used to ensure that the placement proximity of the various speaker channels combine to produce a sound that is 'in-sync'...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Hi Amir, unfortunately I think the answer to your question is way beyond my 'pay grade' :-) I think we, as humans have evolved to survive in our natural environment and it's an environment devoid of time distortion (none of us has the ability to alter time - Dr Who does not exist :-)...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Hi Roger, I have heard a number of systems that purport to be perfectly aligned in the time domain (but they are then let down by other aspects within their system - cables, amplifiers and speaker cabinet resonance) - at least they are trying to move in the right direction. Also, some...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Thank you, Morricab. This is precisely my point, nearly every loudspeaker ever made creates this time distortion (due to passive crossovers) but nobody seems to care and just brushes this massive problem under the carpet, why ? We also see some cable manufacturers willingly putting filters...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Apologies Ken, I did not intend to assert or suppose anything. I only wondered why the very important aspect of maintaining the correct time relationship between the frequencies across the audible bandwidth seems to be considered irrelevant in hifi. As you have pointed out to me, it maybe due...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    Yes, I'm sure it's deeper than Loch Ness out there and I don't want to anger any mythical monsters but it just seems that every discussion revolves around the 'amplitude' component (maybe because it's easier to hear and write about) and the time component (or the relative time distortion of...
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    Amplitude and Time, how difficult can it be ?

    A good friend of mine (famed musician, producer and audio engineer) had a favourite phrase - 'Sound is music and music is sound' I suppose his reasoning was that both are inseparable and that without the medium of 'sound' we could not have the creative art form that is 'music' ? Another...
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    Goldmund 'NextGen' amplifiers

    Hi Norman, The work done on the amp circuits for the active speakers inspired the R&D for the new NextGen series, and I'm sure some of the work done on these amps will find its way back into future speaker developments :-) I'm glad you enjoyed hearing the Prologos at our place in London...
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    Goldmund 'NextGen' amplifiers

    Here are the first set of official photos of the latest NextGen series of amplifiers from legendary Swiss manufacturer Goldmund. Telos 2500 and 1000 mono power amps, as well as the Telos 590 integrated - all amps feature analogue and digital inputs. Once again, Goldmund are pushing the...
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    Goldmund 'NextGen' series amp production

    Just returned from a visit to Geneva to see the team from Goldmund. The factory is a hive of activity with production running flat out, building the first batch of the new 'NextGen' amplifier series. Here you can see work taking place on the Telos 590 integrated, as well as the Telos 1000...
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    spiritland.com High End Vinyl Bar/Restaurant London UK

    We went there last week, myself and 'UK HiFi legend' John Carroll - it's a cool place, especially with a shot of Lagavulin
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    Goldmund Apologue installation just completed on Long Island, NY

    Hello F1eng, We have been the UK Distributor for Goldmund since 2015, please check us out at www.sonatahifi.com (our contact information is also on the Goldmund website) We are based in London (NW6) and are currently servicing and supplying a number of Goldmund clients within the UK...

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