Precision tonearm based on a flat spiral spring for high-quality playback of warped 78 records. The design allows you to follow Vector orientation of the tonearm parts as accurately as possible and, as a result, achieve high clarity of the sound of the system as a whole.
Here you will find precise descriptions of unusual Lo-Fi audio technologies, as well as excellent music restored from old vinyl and shellac records.
Chet Baker Sings, 1954 LP
NEW – Energophone take – 28-02-2020
A great album, both in terms of cool jazz music and the quality of the recording. The original monophonic record. The pearl of the album – "My Funny Valentine", in my opinion, is generally the best version of this song. The most purely recorded is "I get along."
Hiroyasu Kondo 1942-2006
The buddhist monk's professor of electronics and metal science, founder of Audio Note. Thanks in large part to Hiroyas Kondo, HI-FI by the end of the 20th century had not completely turned towards transistor-digital reproduction and standard, engineering thinking.
Audio Note ideology
My reflections on HI-FI
Sakuma Susumu 1943-2018
Sakuma became a cult HI-FI personality thanks to numerous public auditions ("concerts") of his audio systems, first in Japan and later in Europe. Sakuma's concerts opened the eyes to many that sound production is an art and that recording can evoke as much emotion as live music evokes. He is the author of 40 articles published in the journal Musen to Jikken.
Sakuma's Ideology
Peter Qvortrup
Founder of Audio Note UK, an idea development company, Hiroiasu Kondo. He had a noticeable influence on the formation of the Russian subjective HI-FI in the 1990s.
1993 – Road to Audioad
Interview quotes
Anatoly Markovich Likhnitsky (AML) 1936-2013
He led the development of the first HI-FI components in the USSR: the “Brig 001” amplifier, the “Corvet 003” recordplayer, the “Corvet 008” cartridge. He is the author of 15 inventions, 80 scientific articles and two books, an audio-engineer of the highest degree with unique for his profession, non-standard thinking. AML made an invaluable contribution to the development of subjective HI-FI, was the first who justified the existence of intangible phenomena in audio technology logically, thanks to the impeccable knowledge of radio electronics, and not intuitively, as do Kondo and Sakuma. During the last years of his life he repeatedly defended his point of view in discussions with colleagues who consider audio anomalies self-suggestion and PR.
1998 – Citationsons
1998 – Four levels of perception (from the book – Sound quality…)
2000 – Telefunken – Life After Death
2000 – Sound Formula
2001 – High End dies, long live High End
2001 – Seven words about audio examination errors
2003 – Reflections on sound coloring
2003 – Brilliant Recordings
2006 – Why am I convinced of the correctness of Anton Stepichev's contour system?
2007 – Materialism vs esoteric!
2009 – AML short-way ideology
1998 – Four levels of perception (from the book – Sound quality…)
2000 – Telefunken – Life After Death
2000 – Sound Formula
2001 – High End dies, long live High End
2001 – Seven words about audio examination errors
2003 – Reflections on sound coloring
2003 – Brilliant Recordings
2006 – Why am I convinced of the correctness of Anton Stepichev's contour system?
2007 – Materialism vs esoteric!
2009 – AML short-way ideology
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What are we doing?
We are studying the directivity effect, as well as other subjective effects observed in Radio Electronics, Acoustics, and Optics. In our opinion, the Directivity is the most important of the “known unknowns” in these sciences, the most cognitive and interesting phenomenon for research.
Vector Orientation Of Audio Parts
Setting up a high-end audio system is not only a technical process, but also an esoteric one. A good system like a fractal can reveal more and more new shades of music if you do not limit yourself to only technical knowledge of radio engineering during the setup process. Knowledge of Vector Orientation is the know-how that will help you create audio systems with unsurpassed clarity and warmth of sound, or customize the sound of ready-made systems.
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The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts
The Contour system connects all the electrical components of the audio-reproducing system into a single whole, demonstrating the equal influence on the sound of the system, both the components of the signal circuit and the components of the power supply circuits, both AC and DC ones.