Definitive Audio Living Voice Vox Olympian + Kondo

Definitive Audio Living Voice Vox Olympian + Kondo

چهارشنبه 28 می 2014
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بنظر میرسه تو اتاق Definitive Audio تو شو مونیخ (یک میلیون دلار سیستم صوتی) صدای خیلی خوبی شنیده میشد. اینم نظر یکی تو انجمن که مطابقت داره با نظر دوستان ما:

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/67/674920.html

This is a very short report about the recent Munich High End 2014.

Best sound at the show:

There was only one real competitor and it was so superior that it left the other overpriced wannabes drowning in the wake of its Tsunami of realism. That system was…..

Living Voice Vox Olympian/Elyssian + Kondo KSL M-77 + Kondo KSL DAC + Kondo Gaku Oh monoblocks + all Kondo cables + CEC TL0X cd transport.

It was shockingly and laughably better than any super or non-super system at the show. The margin was so huge that it was lightyears ahead. I have never heard sheer realism like this from a reproduction system…it simply redefines what is possible.

There were some other very good HIFI systems but the Living Voice + Kondo was the real deal…what everyone else CLAIMS to be striving for but at the moment there is only one. Sorry to the Wilsons, Martens, Kharmas, DarTZeels, Constellations, Vitus, Audio Research etc. of the world…you are not even close.

Was that system very expensive??? Hell yes! Was it the only one that gave you REAL music and REAL transparency and REAL truth? Yes!…if you can afford that then there should be only one choice for you…replicate that system at home…including the extreme power supply they brought for the whole system. Can other brands reach this level? It remains to be seen but at the moment the answer is clearly NO!

End of report.

بین همه این ها اتاق دموی Living Voice با Audio Note ژاپن یه دنیای دیگه بود اینطور که شاهدان شنیدند.

برای همین من در مورد این بلندگوی هورن سایت رومی رو دیدم و نظراتش رو بخونید بد نیست :

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=11332#11332

یکی تو همین پست ها نوشته :

Recently, I was fortunate enough to have an extended listening session with the Living Voice Vox Olympian outside of a show environment. Since said listening session took place upon a boat – moreover, a wooden-bodied boat – under what can only be said to be sub-ideal conditions (despite extensive room treatments, battery power supply etc, an old wooden yacht probably makes as suitable a listening room as does the interior of a giant lute) this renders what I am about to relate (to me) still more extraordinary.

Firstly, a quick context upon my own rather abortive journey through audio; fifteen years ago I sought to purchase a sound system that could accurately reproduce the volume, dynamics and sheer atmosphere that I frequently found at musical venues, be they concert hall, intimate club with soloist, and all points in between. I had been reliably assured, both by acquaintances and multifarious audio publications, that this was not only possible but commonplace, so I went into the enterprise with high expectations and a budget to match. A year, and numberless disappointing auditions later, I came to realize that what I sought was very much more of a Philosopher’s Stone than something to be lightly culled from a cabal of glossy magazine reviews and clueless store owners. Assuming that what I sought was unattainable, I instead settled for a cheap system that offered acceptable “Hi-Fi” sound and an occasional glimpse of the aether (Roksan Xerxes/ Artemiz/Windfield, Sutherland phono, Octave integrated, Marantz CD, Sansui FM and Harbeth speakers) and acclimatized myself to finding such a level of reproduction to be fulfilling. Over the years I have kept abreast of the latest and greatest things in audio, a simple matter since I have many friends who own “high end” systems – frequently changing them, as the pursuit seems to demand – and have on occasion returned to audio showrooms in order to assure myself that I was not merely depressed and/or cynical the first time around; it would seem that I was not. Aside from an exclusively Audio Tekne system with horn speakers that I heard in Japan (and which was absurdly costly, together with possessing certain limitations incommensurate with the price) nothing has fulfilled my original remit in any completely holistic fashion; what one gives in dynamic slam it takes away in unrealistic transient decay, etc etc ad nauseum.

Last week I heard the Vox Olympian. My experiments in audio have led me to believe that, whilst the application of incorrect topologies throughout the audio industry is commonplace, in speaker design it’s practically the sine qua non of the thing. However, my experience with the aforementioned Audio Tekne system, together with the horns of Avantgarde, Cessaro, and certain aspects of Classic Audio Reproductions speakers have led me to believe that horns may well be the way forward, but this has always been tempered by the sense that the technology was being inadequately exploited, chiefly by designers with hidebound belief systems and/or mastabatory cults revolving around single driver/archaic cinema speakers from their childhoods. The Vox is the first speaker I have heard that seems to possess all of the intrinsic positives of the horn platform whilst overcoming its endemic negatives. You must forgive me, but despite possessing a doctorate in Letters, the Audiophile’s Argot almost entirely eludes me; it is, in any case, very much easier to apply such argot to what is wrong with a presentation rather than what is right. In the case of the Vox, once a certain amount of tinkering had been addressed (which consisted of rotating the upper two drivers within their threads, perhaps only be a millimeter or two, but the effect of which was so dramatic as to recall to mind the article on DPOLS that appears in this forum; prior to this the presentation had been, to my taste, a little saccharine and wooly, but this was to the liking of the owner) the level of detail, accuracy of transient resolution, dynamic thrust, plausible soundstaging et al, et al were beyond compare. For the first time in my experience, the sheer sensation of orchestral power was resolved in front of me, together with realistic richness of timbre, deep bass that was physically experienced just as in the concert hall; transient decay, even in the case of solo piano, was indistinguishable from the real, and human voices were beyond criticism. I could go on, but fear a lapse into the sort of verbiage that Messrs Valin, Harley et al have recourse to in order to flesh out that which is inherently skeletal when one has already ejaculated one’s best adjectives on a $120 pair of mini-monitors earlier in said issue.

As for myself, whilst I am pleased to have had the real potential of audio revealed to me – and to a certain extent, perhaps, the route by which it may be sought – I cannot justify such an expenditure in my own life. The accompanying system was costly too (the details escape me, but I do know that the components were mostly Kondo with a CEC TLOX transport, DCS dac and assorted exotic cables etc) yet whilst I am not myself in this marketplace, I have since found myself tinkering with the idea of a DIY speaker not dissimilar from the above, perhaps employing AK151, S2 and Ale HF drivers with custom superstructures, something that may be accomplished at a bare fraction of the price.

de Charlus

چند نکته قابل تامل هست اونم اینکه سیستم لامپی خوب Audio Note زمانی که با هورن خوب match بشه داینامیکی میده در حد موسیقی زنده اما اگه با این بلندگوهای بزرگ و کم افیشنسی تو بازار ایران جمع بشه صدای خوبی نمیده.

نکته دیگه برق این سیستم بود که من نمیدونم تو این شو هم از باتری استفاده میکرده یا نه که جدا از برق شهر هست و میتونه بالای 4 ساعت سیستم رو بدون اتصال به برق شهر روشن نگه داره.

نکته آخر یک شکل بودن کل سیستم آئودیو نت بود یعنی جز ترنسپورت همگی از Audio Note بودند.

نکته دیگه هورن بودن بلندگو به همراه درایورهای vitavox s2 بود.

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=96#96

ادامه لینک ها :

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian.html

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/roadtourlivingvoice/1.html

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice/definitive.html

http://www.tnt-audio.com/tours/definitive_audio_e.html

 

 

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