vinyl & shellac audio
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 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
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
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.
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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.
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 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.