国内ニュース速報 [Japan]
各ブランド製品価格改定のご案内 弊社取扱いの下記各ブランドの一部製品につきまして、2013年7月1日より製品価格を変更させていただきます旨、ご案内いたします。
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■価格改定対象ブランド
VIOLA全製品
CH Precision一部製品
AUDIO MACHINA一部製品
OCEANWAY MONITORS全製品
GATO AUDIO全製品
■価格改定の実施時期 2013年7月1日より
Viola CH Precision AUDIO MACHINA OCEANWAY
GATO AUDIO
海外ニュース速報 [World]
Mimesis 32.5 – Processor
The Mimesis 32.5 is the Reference version of the new Goldmund preamplifiers family. A successor to the Mimesis 24, it has a much higher DSP power that will allow it to handle the most advanced configurations such as the ones used in the Goldmund Media Room. Its 3 x A/D converters of highest quality will allow all kind of possible connections both in 2-channel and Home Theater environments. It can distribute any number of speakers in a room in order to achieve maximum coverage in both bandwidth and space recreation. This innovation has totally surpassed today’s limits, achieving levels of reality never thought possible before.
With the acoustic corrections brought by our Proteus software, the Mimesis 32.5 room correction capabilities are endless and unique in the industry. Compatible with all kind of sources, outputting 32 channels in 96kHz 24 bits high resolution digital format, the Mimesis 32.5 will rapidly become the reference preamplifier-controller of any ultra-high-level Audio and Video system, even in 2 channels.
By outputting only digital signals, it allows large installations to run only digital cables, with far less quality loss than with analog interconnects.
The Mimesis 32.5 offers the ultrahigh quality Goldmund “Mechanical Grounding” construction using brass, aluminum and hard-steel in a traditional Swiss precision assembly.
INPUTS:
•10 digital inputs
•In1 RCA spdif
•In2 Toslink optical
•In3 RCA spdif / XLR aes-ebu
•In4 Toslink optical / RCA spdif
•In5 RCA spdif
•In6 USB AUDIO (up to 48kHz pcm stereo only)
•In7 HDMI input
•In8 HDMI input
•In9 HDMI input
•In10 HDMI input
•Any inputs from 1 to 5, and 7-8 can receive multi-channel encoded signal and audio signal up to 96kHz.
•6 analog inputs:
•In9 to In11 RCA 2-channel
•In12 to In14 RCA 2-channel if rear switch up
•In12 RCA 6-channel if rear switch down
DIGITAL OUTPUTS
•16 Digital RCA SPDIF outputs with 2 channels for each
•1 HDMI output to connect a video display or a processor
REMOTE CONTROL
•Adjustable level control with more than 65dB range and 0.05dB accuracy in the 0 to -34dB range
•RC5 Standard remote system compatible with standard programmable remote control transmitter (codes available on request)
•Selection of the source
•Remote muting and standby
•Balance and Pink noise
•Output Format selection
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
•2 knobs for input selection and volume control
•2-character numeric displays for input selection
•2-character numeric displays for volume
•Direct Led format, balance and function display
POWER
•Nominal line voltage: 100V or 115V or 230 V
•Input voltage range: +/- 10 %
•Maximum power consumption: 50 W
SIZE AND WEIGHT
•440 W x 400 D x 130 H (mm)
•Total Weight: 25 kg
WARRANTY
•3 years
Mimesis 16.5 – Processor
The Mimesis 16.5 offers the same features as the Mimesis 16 preamplifier and extends this model for fanatics of Home-Theater. Outputting 16 channels in 96kHz 24 bits high resolution digital format, it processes surround sound in a way that you have never heard before, creating for the viewer a sense of total immersion in a completely lifelike surround image.
Although it supports extremely complex filtering configurations necessary for the best home theater systems, the Mimesis 16.5 is also particularly user-friendly and easy to set up for stereo or multichannel music rooms.
Thanks to its incredible DSP capability, the Mimesis 16.5 (along with the Goldmund Mimesis 32) is the most performing sound processor existing today. It allows each speaker’s driver to be separately adjusted in frequency response, phase response and time response and to introduce the Leonardo correction to compensate for any built-in crossover. With the acoustic corrections brought by our Proteus software, its room correction capability makes it a revelation in all systems. The timing of each channel can be adjusted in increments of 0.01 ms, so that the listener hears sounds at precisely the same time no matter from which speaker they originate. But more, the number of channels it outputs (16 vs. 7 for most processors on the market) allows a maximum coverage in both bandwidth and space recreation. For instance, additional subwoofers can be added, and adjusted so that their sound is perfectly coherent and complementary with the other subwoofers. Using the Universal Preamplifier to create additional surround channels in this manner produces an unprecedentedly smooth and natural surround effect, in which the location of each speaker is impossible to determine by ear.
The Proteus and Leonardo technologies have been developed by Goldmund and no other brand on the market has reached the level of correction offered in our processors.
Just like the Mimesis 16, it integrates the latest version of A/D created by Goldmund: the famous Alize 7. It uses multiple A/D to increase its dynamic range and produce a next to perfect phase linearity.
INPUTS
•10 digital inputs
•In1 RCA spdif
•In2 Toslink optical
•In3 RCA spdif / XLR aes-ebu
•In4 Toslink optical / RCA spdif
•In5 RCA spdif
•In6 USB AUDIO (up to 48kHz pcm stereo only)
•In7 HDMI input
•In8 HDMI input
•In9 HDMI input
•In10 HDMI input Any inputs from 1 to 5 and 7-8 can receive multi-channel encoded signal and audio signal up to 96kHz.
•6 analog inputs:
•In9 to In11 RCA 2-channel
•In12 to In14 RCA 2-channel if rear switch up
•In12 RCA 6-channel if rear switch down
DIGITAL OUTPUT
•8 Digital RCA SPDIF outputs with 2 channels for each.
•1 HDMI output to connect a video display or a processor
•Front panel and remote-control adjustable level control with more than 65dB range and 0.05dB accuracy in the 0 to -34dB range.
REMOTE CONTROL
•RC5 Standard remote system compatible with standard programmable remote control transmitter (codes available on request)
•Volume and balanced control
•Selection of the source
•Remote muting and standb
FRONT PANEL CONTROL
•2 knobs for input selection and volume control
•2 character numeric displays for input selection
•2 character numeric displays for volume
•Direct Led format, balance and function display
POWER SUPPLY
•Nominal line voltage: 100V or 115V or 230 V.
•Input voltage range: +/- 10 %.
•Maximum power consumption: 50 W.
SIZE AND WEIGHT
•440 W x 400 D x 130 H (mm). Weight: 15 Kg
WARRANTY
•3 years parts and labor.
海外ニュース速報 [World]
A new version of the legendary FM Acoustics 268 preamplifer is coming soon.
268-C now has a new feature – a acoustic resonance compensation (ARC) circuit.
The ARC minimizes room modes and other resonances. Room modes occur when parallel surfaces create one or more pronounced resonances (a sharp Sound Pressure Level (SPL) increase at specific frequencies).
In a typical rectangular room the 1st principal resonance is occurring at 1/2 wavelength of opposite walls (this is why it is not a good idea to listen while sitting close to walls) – in above graph this is “P1” (graph is smoothed to only show the two principal resonances). The 2nd resonance is at double this frequency (“P2”).
Depending on room size the 1st and 2nd resonances can occur anywhere from around 100 Hz down to below 20 Hz. Such a resonant peak is superimposing itself on the actual music mainly resulting in boominess and poor low frequency definition.
Professional studios can ameliorate such room modes but size, construction limits and cost preclude this for home environments. Usual “hi-fi” absorbers work relatively well for middle and higher frequencies but with reasonably sized domestic absorbers such low frequencies room modes cannot be attenuated efficiently.
The ARC circuits are also ideal if there are resonances from other sources in the room, e.g. air conditioning or any other resonating surface or room component. These circuits are unique to the FM 268-C. They are pure analogue circuits and do not interfere with the music.
No A/D and D/A conversion is done. The integrity of the existing systems signal reproduction remains. The set up of the ARC needs test equipment and is performed for FM 268-C owners by FM ACOUSTICS official distributors.
海外ニュース速報 [World]
HighEnd2013にて発表予定。
Following in the footsteps and phenomenal success of the fact.3 and fact.8 models, the new fact.12, making its debut at High End, takes the performance to a whole new level. The fact.12 produces music on a scale and with a power that belies its demure cabinet. New, cutting edge drive units are integrated seamlessly by the hand built precision crossover, which also features user adjustable controls for fine tuning the high and low frequency performance to suit the room and partnering equipment perfectly. This flexibility and the ease of drive and its control make the fact.12 a dream for all serious audiophiles.
It is PMC’s Advanced Transmission Line (ATL) bass loading technology that provides the characteristic transparent midrange and detailed, dynamic and deep bass, which is so important in the accurate reproduction of music; bringing you the real passion and true musicality of the recording. These characteristics make PMC the speakers of choice for the premier studios across the world such as Emil Berliner Studios and Teldex, Berlin, recording for labels such as Deutsche Gramophon and Harmonia Mundi. Discerning users also include Kraftwerk, Stevie Wonder, Elbow and Thomas Newman, composer of the James Bond Skyfall soundtrack.
If you are looking for an uncompromising and truly tangible presentation of music, combined with pure beauty, then you will want to audition the fact.12.
Presenting the music, the whole music and nothing but the music. Fact.
