Keep in mind he could have added a turntable and spun some vinyl for a better sound but it was not needed. He could have brough a reel to reel with master tapes but he choose not to. This may have given even better sound than a DAC that was well over twenty years old. At that time digital was just starting and much had not been learned yet. Yep he used a CD. Keep in mind the Kondo DAC I think is just 18 but and that is it. No big upsampling, sound shaping, or reclocking stuff. If the system sounded that good with a CD that is saying it can be even better with tape and vinyl. He just played Redbook stuff with no high resolution 24/96 or DSD or 24/192. Personally that was very brave of him.
Keep in mind he could have added a turntable and spun some vinyl for a better sound but it was not needed. He could have brough a reel to reel with master tapes but he choose not to. This may have given even better sound than a DAC that was well over twenty years old. At that time digital was just starting and much had not been learned yet. Yep he used a CD. Keep in mind the Kondo DAC I think is just 18 but and that is it. No big upsampling, sound shaping, or reclocking stuff. If the system sounded that good with a CD that is saying it can be even better with tape and vinyl. He just played Redbook stuff with no high resolution 24/96 or DSD or 24/192. Personally that was very brave of him.
I had owned that Kondo DAC for years. Although it isn't outperformed a good Analog set up, it is one of the non digital sounding (a bit of honey coating) DAC.
The purpose of using Digital was again song selections. Track after track can be easily chose and it can be played the whole day without damaging records.
I have listen to many high end systems the last 20 years and this system was easily the best sound I have ever heard. At least on easy jazz and voice and piano. Soo realistic!! Sorry they did not play led Zeppelin, big classic orchestras or big band Jazz. Wonder how that would have sounded. The craftmanship was the best I have ever seen. The price of the speakerrs was One million Euros I was told.
I have listen to many high end systems the last 20 years and this system was easily the best sound I have ever heard. At least on easy jazz and voice and piano. Soo realistic!! Sorry they did not play led Zeppelin, big classic orchestras or big band Jazz. Wonder how that would have sounded. The craftmanship was the best I have ever seen. The price of the speakerrs was One million Euros I was told.
Great aren't they! I have mine set up as a surround sound system in my bathroom and simply adore listening to my Demis Roussos collection whilst on the Bidet
Great aren't they! I have mine set up as a surround sound system in my bathroom and simply adore listening to my Demis Roussos collection whilst on the Bidet
Does anyone know if there is one woofer in the lower box or more? What's the purpose of the upper grille and the couple of convex slanted slit arrangement?
Does anyone know if there is one woofer in the lower box or more? What's the purpose of the upper grille and the couple of convex slanted slit arrangement?
"Below the S2, the midbass is handled by a Vitavox 151, a 15" paper-cone, pleated-paper-surround unit similar to that used in the Air Partner but with an Alnico magnet system. It is loaded by a folded-horn enclosure, with nonparallel sides and again built from laminated beech, that extends its range down to a -3dB point at around 70Hz -- giving the complex and visually imposing Vox Olympians about the same low-frequency bandwidth as an LS3/5A."
Thanks 853guy, I found a text on 6Moons whereby the 15" is bolted on the bottom layer, firing upwards at 45 degrees, then there's an exit from a compression chamber at 45 from the vertical but away from the listener. Following that, the passage is downwards, then U turns upwards to finish at the lips.