Goldmund nieuws

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Geen HDMI inputs toch?

[jan-rotterdam]

Geen HDMI inputs toch?

Niet op de Mythos 2, dat wordt een processor om tussen een analoge voor- / eindversterker(s) te plaatsen

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Ik heb de prijs van de Mythos 2 analoge processor binnen.....    € 26.000,-

Groeten Jan

[ivo1986]

Ik heb de prijs van de Mythos 2 analoge processor binnen.....    € 26.000,-

Groeten Jan

En besteld? 

[jan-rotterdam]

En besteld? 

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund komt met de opvolger van de Telos-200 eindversterker

The Goldmund Telos 250 is the new mono amplifier of the Goldmund "High-End" line. The Telos 250 replaces the Telos 200. It features a new larger chassis with better Mechanical Grounding, offers a higher power and uses the new capacitors developed from the Telos 5000 to considerably improve its ?Driver Control?. It includes a Telos circuit and built in digital input, a built in D/A Alize 5 converter. The good news is that in spite of all the improvements made, the Telos 250 is sold at the same price as the Telos 200, and it is available immediately.

Ultra-high speed as all the Telos Amplifiers : DC to 2MHz bandwidth at full power before protection.
Unique circuit time accuracy : better than 100ps. A unique figure in the industry. Time distortion remains the most detrimental type of distortion introduced by analogue electronics, because it represents a form of signal degradation not existing in real life. This figure is rarely published by high-end Audio manufacturers due to the poor results achieved by most today's design.
Unbalanced and Balanced input available. Allows the use of a balanced preamplifier.
Thermal Grounding construction : The power output Mosfets are assembled on a large gold-plated pure copper heat-transmitter to achieve an ultra-fast heat transfer and so limit temperature-related dynamic losses. The isolators used are in specially-treated Kapton, the thinnest and best isolators providing the highest thermal transfer rate.
Ultra-fast power supply design : 4 built-in high-speed transformers, new rectifiers and low capacitor values are used in the design in order to provide the fastest possible signal amplification without power-supply-induced contamination.
Signal Sensing auto power on with soft start to avoid power surges in multi-amp systems. Ultra-safe operation controlled by processor for glitch avoidance.
Goldmund Speaker cable coaxial connector in addition to the traditional 5-way post.
Built-in digital to analogue converter of Alize5 technology with separate digital output to link 2 amplifiers on a single Spdif cable



Power
Maximum instantaneous power: 200 W RMS on 8 Ohms.

Frequency Response
+/- 0.1 dB, 0 - 300 kHz,
+/- 1 dB, 0 - 1000 kHz.
+/- 3 dB, 0 - 3 MHz.

Input Sensitivity
Nominal level: 1.45 V RMS.
Voltage Gain: 28.2 (29dB).
Input impedance > 50 kOhms.

Distortion
Figures valid for all levels from 0 to 40 V / 8 Ohms :
Dynamic: TID < 0.01 % (- 80 dB) unweighted.
Static: THD < 0.01 % (- 80 dB) unweighted.

Circuit Speed
Slew rate: > 400 V/us.
Rise time: < 300 ns.

Operating Temperature
Room temperature: -30 to +40 degrees Celsius (-22 to +104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Internal temperature : +45 to +65 degrees Celsius (+113 to +149 degrees Fahrenheit).

Power Supply
Nominal line voltage: 117, 234 V (selectable internally).
Input voltage range: +/- 10 %.
Maximum power consumption: 1000 W.
Power used in standby: 60 W.
4 toroidal transformers
4 separated power supplies rails

Safety Features
AC voltage fuse: min 16 A slow-blow.

Front Panel Controls
1 Control key (Muting/Standby and 2 sec tempo for Power on/off).
Red Led for Over-heating, DC Offset or HF protection and overload.
Green Led for Power On, operating mode.
Yellow Led for signal connection and digital Lock.

Rear Panel Connectors And Controls
Power cord: universal socket 3 lugs.
Main fuse (16A slow-blow).
Green-yellow AC earth binding post.
Output speaker 2 X 5 way binding post, and Goldmund high-speed Speaker Cable coaxial connector.
Input connector 1 x RCA for analogue unbalanced input, XLR for analogue balanced input, 2 x RCA (input/output) for digital input.
Switch for analogue / digital input selection.
Switch for right/left channel selection from Spdif input.
7-step Input level adjustment acting on all inputs.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

En nog wat info over de nieuwe Proteus software

Audiophile tuning, the artisan approach
Back in the 20th century, speakers were usually "designed" by talented audiophiles combining a small part of real technique (usually only for the crossover general shape and the bass loading) with a serious dose of hand tuning for the selection of the drivers and the cutoff/slope/level of each part of the crossover. The best "designers" were usually seen soldering resistors, capacitors or coils during long days (and nights) until their baby was up to their taste in its subjective restitution of a (arbitrarily) selected piece of (nobody knowing how accurately) recorded music.

Speaker modeling, the scientific approach (sort of)
The "Speaker Modeling" approach changed all that. Already used by the most advanced companies in the 90's, it allowed calculating the ideal crossover and bass load, as well as the enclosure dimensions, via a computer program, without touching a soldering iron. In addition to providing perfection in the frequency response (finally not so critical because its variation is a natural phenomenon), it also allowed to measure the phase response, a domain where a speaker, especially if using a passive or active crossover, seriously damages the propagation delay vs. frequency, something unaccounted for by mother nature. Alas, if any serious fault in the phase/time domain could be well measured during the modeling process, its correction was far from obvious and even the best speaker manufacturers were neglecting it, not being able to do anything to correct it inside their crossover.



This is why Goldmund developed Proteus, the only complete solution to control all the aspects of a speaker and making it ideally linear not only in amplitude but also in phase/time.

The importance of Time Distortion
Any limited-bandwidth device creates time distortion by modifying the propagation delay of a signal in the device in function of its frequency. This distortion is audible, but subjectively corrected by the brain, which "re-synchronizes" the different frequencies of the signal received by the ear until "recognition" is achieved. So it is easily neglected in subjective listening. Correcting it is only possible in the digital domain, using a sophisticated DSP program that Goldmund developed in 2004, as a world premiere, under the name of "Leonardo". The suppression of the Time Distortion is creating a "relaxing" effect to the brain, favoring its perception of more details and an easier localization of various sources in space. Everything happens as if the brain had been freed of a painful and continuous work, and had become more available for a better analysis of the received message.

The speaker acoustics, room acoustics potential control
Without the use of any passive crossover, the Goldmund Proteus solution integrally rebuilds the crossover in the digital domain, and locates it in one of its Universal Preamplifiers such as the Mimesis 16 or Mimesis 32. So, in a Proteus configuration, each power amplifier is directly attached to each driver, and not anymore through a passive crossover. Thanks to the direct low-impedance connection, some other characteristics are seriously improved as well, especially what is usually called the "Driver Control". The "Driver Control" describes the capability of a brute force amplifier to neutralize the natural resonances of a driver by "holding it" very tightly, blocking any overshoot (which also improves the driver reliability) or cone vibration not present in the amplifier-provided signal. Experimental results show that increasing the "Driver Control" to an extreme level neutralizes not only the driver vibration but also the induced enclosure coloration and even, to a certain degree, the room modes.

Conclusion
Interestingly, to reach the nearly perfect results that Proteus can achieve requires an agreement between the manufacturers of the electronics and of the speaker. Audiophiles enjoy buying those two parts of their system separately, and from different manufacturers... So Goldmund will have to deal with different speaker companies of similar caliber to be able to exploit this considerable progress in the speaker design technology. This implies very interesting collaborations with the companies who will want their speakers are transcended to their best potential.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Uit de Goldmund nieuwsbrief

Goldmund is launching a 2010 international tour during which our latest technologies will be demonstrated, compared and dissected! Why?



Because demonstrations are the clearest and most objective proof of the performance of an audio product, especially when compared to other High End products in the industry.
Because many people write about Goldmund without having even heard our products. So why not end the blah blah and base critics on facts and experiences?
Because many people are interested in the technologies we have developed but would like to understand them better. We are receiving countless demands on this subject and want to address them. Brand new technologies take years to develop, they also take a long time to be understood, recognized and accepted.
Because, and for the same reasons, our distributors have difficulty to explain these technologies and this could only help their training.
The 2010 Goldmund tour is dedicated to those who want to obtain deeper insights into the scientific studies we make and the technologies that result of them. It is also for those who want to experience how these technologies serve the high quality standards our products deliver. Several types of demonstrations will be offered:

Comparative speaker demonstrations with and without the Proteus 2-channel technology. We will propose Goldmund speakers but also speakers from other brands that may be decided depending on their local notoriety.
Comparative demos / blind tests of the Telos power amplifiers compared to any (yes, any!) other locally successful power amplifier.
Blind tests between our Eidos disc players and any (yes, any!) other high end players of famous brands (Esoteric, Ayre, etc...).
Digital vs. analog systems blind tests. Like Mimesis 22 vs. Mimesis 32 driving a pair of Telos in a 2-channel system.


We will keep you informed in this newsletter of the schedule of the Goldmund Technology Demo Tour events.

For the time being, the first of these events are already planned in Singapore and New York.

We will also invite the local Press to write a neutral report on attendee's opinions and comments that we will publish afterwards.



This promises to be very exciting!

Benieuwd of ze ook Nederland aan gaan doen

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund komt met een nieuwe eindversterker

Like the former Mimesis 3, the Mimesis 29, or the Telos 600, the Telos 350 has all the features to become a milestone among the audio power amplifiers of the Goldmund lines.



The Telos 350 is built with a new full-aluminum Mechanical Grounding asymmetrical construction. This design allows keeping it at a reasonable size (and price) and makes it easily stackable. This was rendered necessary by the recent introduction of the 2-channel Proteus, a tremendous improvement in the driving of the best speakers, but one that requires several mono power amplifiers. This means that the price to pay to obtain Proteus was quickly becoming quite expensive for the amateur of complex speakers, not talking about the obtrusive space taken.



The Telos 350 real power will remain undisclosed... But the company says it will be much more powerful than a Telos 400 despite its reasonable price. Knowing that the Telos 600 has been recently discontinued, you may conclude that it can drive quite anything. In addition, the Telos 350 is the first amplifier that can be mixed with the existing Telos 2500, Telos 1000 or Telos 600 in a Proteus configuration, providing a substantial economy on large Proteus systems such as the Full Goldmund Epilogue. The Telos 350 can drive its tweeters and even the Epilogue 1 Signature woofers.



The internal circuit is seriously improved over the previous Telos and largely inspired by the recent Telos 5000, Goldmund masterpiece, and its future successor the Telos 3500 (more about this later). Using the same type of capacitors, a revised input circuit and no less than an Alize 6 D/A circuit, the only sacrifice on the Telos 350 is the suppression of the analog level control. Its approximate 3dB steps are rendered unnecessary by the easy adjustment to the half dB inside a Goldmund universal preamplifier. To improve the peace of mind of clients who use several Telos 350, its protection circuitry is the most advanced of any Telos amplifier so far; it makes it perfectly safe in case of short-circuit and many other typical electrical incidents.



Last, but not least, the Telos 350 provides an internal connection for an optional pluggable DSP board, just like the U-Telos amplifiers of the Goldmund Media Room. Connectable to a laptop by an USB connector, the future DSP board will allow Amplitude, Phase and Delay to be adjusted to set the Telos 350 in any configuration, including a complete Media Room environment.

Ook wat nieuws over de processoren van Goldmund

Good News! The 32 and 16HD are now working in Multi-channel... This requires a board swap (easily installed by your Goldmund retailer). As explained before, this is because the Cirrus Logic DSP we use was wrongly advertised and finally proved unusable as it was recommended. The exchange board for existing Mimesis 32 users, as well as the complete Mimesis 32 and 16HD will all be available by end of March/beginning of April. The software we developed with the new board will process Dolby, DTS, AAC, PCM 2.0 and PCM 5.1, the new remarkable HD format. And this directly from digital coaxial or Toslink or from the HDMI splitter included in the 32 and 16HD. The less-satisfying Dolby True-HD and DTS HD will temporarily be fed in analog as in most systems today. We are waiting (again) for Cirrus Logic to be able to make their evaluation kit work to do it directly from the HDMI as well. When ready, this will be only a minor software upgrade, easily done with the new Goldmund Universal Configurator. We thank you for your patience.

En nog wat nieuws over de instap serie, de Metis lijn

A set of new Metis analog audio components has been created by Goldmund, replacing the company?s former SR line at even lower costs despite their much improved performance. Their Mechanical Grounding Construction is simply remarkable. In the new line, an analog Preamplifier and Power Amplifier, the Metis 2 and Metis 3, will remind the most knowledgeable audiophiles of the Mimesis 2 & 3, the first electronics introduced by the company in 1984. With their even better performance and a minimum form factor (30W x 30D x 5H cm), but also with the exceptional Goldmund metal finish and engraving, they will be the typical separates any young Goldmund amateur with a limited budget was looking for. The Metis 2 preamplifier provides 5 analog stereo inputs and ultra-linear volume control with the same circuitry as the Mimesis 27.5. A balance adjustment is even provided on the remote. A set of 2 analog RCA outputs serves as the preamplifier output. The Metis 3 Power amplifier is a stereo 2 x 150W Telos circuit providing exceptional dynamics to the most phlegmatic speakers. It comes with 2 analog RCA inputs. An integrated amplifier, the Metis 5 includes both Metis 2 and Metis 3 circuitry in a diminutive chassis the size of the existing Metis 10 and at a very reasonable price for the quality. In the following picture, the new Goldmund PH7.6 is also shown, using the same chassis and form factor.

More good news in this newsletter! If you are the lucky owner of a Goldmund Metis 10, you will be glad to know that this new configurator will make it a 16-channel processor. Contact your official Goldmund retailer to learn more about the new options that are available to you. The Metis system now offers incredible performance and configuration possibilities both for 2-channel and home theater systems. Reasonably priced, easy to set up, the Metis systems are becoming a must for those who are looking for small size, quality equipment.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Wat nieuws van Goldmund

Goldmund Presents the Telos 352 and 353 Power Amplifiers
Goldmund is proud to present two new Telos Power Amplifiers: the Telos 352 (2 channels) and 353 (3 channels). They have been designed to support the Proteus 2-channel technology developed by Goldmund but can also be used as regular stereo or 3-channel amplifiers.

For those who are not familiar with Proteus, here is a short summary (white papers are available on request for science versed readers):

Proteus is a mathematical modeling technique created by the Goldmund fundamental research team led by Dr. Veronique Adam. It computes acoustic corrections that have the unique particularity of perfectly aligning the frequency response, the phase response and the time response of a speaker. This level of perfection has never been achieved before in any other existing Audio system. The corrections are included in a configuration file that is loaded inside the preamplifier and each driver is then amplified separately.

Although the performance of Proteus systems is nearly perfect, their disadvantage is the multiplication of the power amplifiers needed to drive the speakers and thus the cost.

The Telos 352 and 353 solve this cost problem by multiplying the number of amplification channels in one single amplifier case and with one single shared power supply. This makes them the ideal amplifiers for high end audio systems and for Media Room applications. These new amplifiers, like the Telos 350, can be mixed in complex configurations with the already existing Telos 2500, Telos 1000 or Telos 600 because they share the same group delay and the same sensitivity, also providing a substantial economy on large Proteus systems such as the Full Goldmund Epilogue.

If the Telos 352 has the exact same size and design as the Telos 350, the 353 is slightly higher, allowing the insertion of the board for the additional channel.

Telos 352 and 353 features:

Full-aluminum Mechanical Grounding Asymmetrical Construction: Visually surprising, the asymmetrical effect of having the heat sink on the right side and the weight concentrated on the front right foot proved remarkably efficient and allowed the size and weight of the amplifier to be seriously reduced without quality loss. This design also makes it easily stackable.

Internal Circuit: Using the same type of capacitors as the Telos 5000, a revised input circuit and no less than an Alize 6 D/A circuit, the only sacrifice on the Telos 352 and 353 is the suppression of the analog level control. Its approximate 3dB steps are rendered unnecessary by the easy adjustment to the half dB inside a Goldmund universal preamplifier.

Safety Features: To improve the peace of mind of clients who use several Telos 352/3, their protection circuitry is the most advanced of the Telos technology, just like in the Telos 350; it makes them perfectly safe in case of short-circuit and many other typical electrical incidents.

Optional DSP: Last, but not least, the Telos 352 and 353 provide an internal connection for an optional pluggable DSP board, just like the U-Telos amplifiers of the Goldmund Media Room. Connectable to a laptop by an USB connector, the future DSP board will allow Amplitude, Phase and Delay to be adjusted to set the Telos 352/3 in any configuration, including a complete Media Room environment.

Power Maximum Instantaneous Power: 500 W

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

En wat nieuws uit de "METIS" serie (de instap serie van Goldmund)

A Preview of the New Metis DVD player
Many of you requested a source for the Metis system...so it will soon be ready. The Metis DVD will be available in November. We will keep you informed about the price and technical specifications later but wanted to show you how it will look.

A Mono Amplifier Completes the Metis Family
Another new member of the Metis family will soon be available. The Metis One is a mono amplifier with digital and analog inputs.

Its nominal power is 150W. It is a small unit (200 W x 355 D x 50 H - mm) that can easily be included in any system. Its price will be announced soon and delivery is planned for November.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Info over een prototype blu ray speler in de Metis lijn

New 3D Demo at the Goldmund House with a potential Metis Blu Ray player
On September 1st 2010 Goldmund presented in Los Angeles another 3D demo in the Metis Room of its demo house.

With an especially designed configuration allowing the Metis system to benefit from the latest Media Room innovations, the demonstration presented a spectacular 3D video experience. The exceptionally accurate sound system based on a Metis 10 preamplifier feeding 6 Metis active speakers and 2 Metis subwoofers was equalized in amplitude and in time and is today the most affordable completely accurate system offered by Goldmund.

The LED LCD 55" screen by Samsung was linked by HDMI 1.4 to a prototype of a potential Metis Blu-ray player built around a 3D Samsung Blu-ray player platform.

The system is a good example of today's extreme systems that can be easily installed in a living room or a bedroom without disturbing the daily lifestyle of many young couples or their decoration of the room.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

En nog wat info over het Leonardo correctie systeem

New Demonstrations - The Leonardo Correction
In addition to the new 3D Metis room system in the Goldmund House in Los Angeles, a set of new educational demonstrations have been installed in main room of the house.

These demonstrations, very simply controlled by the Mimesis 16 remote, present the various options now available to improve the best 2-channel systems.

Based on several Epilogue systems it is now very easy to demonstrate the successive steps of possible improvements:

1 - The simple mono-amping Epilogue 1
2 – The same but with the Leonardo correction of the Epilogue 1 crossover
3 – The Proteus-2ch Epilogue 1 Signature solution without Leonardo
4 - The Proteus-2ch Epilogue 1 Signature solution with Leonardo
5 – The Proteus-2ch Epilogue 1 Signature + Epilogue 2 Signature solution with Leonardo

By switching instantaneously between 2 solutions, the improvement is more than obvious for all listeners.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

The Mimesis 32: Latest Software Updates

The Mimesis 32 and the Mimesis 16 are receiving new software updates regularly. Here is a small point of the latest changes and current priorities for those who have lost track with the various recent releases.

1 – We continue improving the 2-channel possibilities of the Goldmund processors especially on their USB input quality and on the various Proteus configurations they can handle.

The USB input quality is now practically undetectable compared to the best players when receiving, for example, an Apple computer USB output. This is the beginning of a serious change in the favorite audiophile sources, allowing use of the best (and cheapest) media Servers like Apple iTunes to play music and movies even in the top systems, without sacrificing quality.

For Proteus, the major progress we made recently is the possibility to introduce extremely complex filters in the Proteus configuration. With the continuously growing quantity of r speakers from other manufacturers we can handle in Proteus (now 8 models and numerous more coming), some special crossover shapes were unable to be properly recreated with the previous software. A new version of the speaker modeling transfer to the Mimesis 32 now allows us to implement all these special filters, making the Proteus results even more spectacularly accurate. This will be demonstrated during the coming shows in Tokyo, Singapore and Seoul where such speakers will be powered by a Mimesis 32.

2 – In multi-channel applications like multi-channel Proteus systems and the Goldmund Media Room environment, we currently upgrade the software in many directions where the changes in film mixing and recent Blu-ray players create new demands.

The most significant multi-channel change occurring these days is the growing number of real 7.1 mixing available. The first Mimesis 32 software releases made the channel mapping difficult or even (with some players) impossible depending on their setup menu. This is now working fine with all the units we tested and we will improve even more the panning possibilities and accuracy in the next releases to come, especially for very large rooms using many speakers, by modifying the configurator.

We are also improving progressively the audio playback through HDMI, especially for real 5.1 or 7.1 PCM sound tracks, the most accurate existing, but also the most demanding, specifically appreciated in high quality concert recordings. The various difficulties we (as many other manufacturers) found in some set-up (especially cable contacts problems) may sometimes be eliminated by software duplication and re-routing without sacrificing bandwidth as it is more commonly made (you would not buy a Mimesis 32 if you do not get the best performance). We expect a lot from the recent appearance of HDMI cables using an active circuit, a more professional solution. We tested them recently and very successfully in our room in Los Angeles. It may be more effective for the Video signals than for Audio ones, but it finally seems to solve some of the impedance accidents created by bad contacts. We also work hard at limiting the operating delays of a Blu-ray / HDMI combination, but our results remain too modest for our taste.

As for the format processing, we have not yet decided if we will or not implement a processing of the HD formats inside our processors, as we thought necessary a year ago. Today we do not see any reason anymore. The quality of such processing is quite doubtful (introduction of down-sampling, etc...). Today it would be probably quite detrimental compared to the better and simpler bit reconstruction made in the Goldmund players to play the Dolby and DTS HD formats.

Considering that the coupling of an Eidos 20BD Blu-ray player (or the Eidos Reference Blue) associated with a Mimesis 32 or 16HD can play all existing formats with more accuracy than any other solution, our best installations around the world are now using that combination which would made other possibilities unnecessary, or even confusing.

However, some future players (they make them cheaper and cheaper, you know!) may provide a quality of Dolby Digital and DTS decoding insufficient for the best systems, especially when the CD and DVD discs are not treated by a separate player. Then, these formats will need to be treated inside the Mimesis 32 (remember that decoding Dolby Digital or DTS is a real decompression algorithm and far more demanding in software audio quality than the HD formats simple lossless reconstruction. And remember how Goldmund made its supremacy with those in the Mimesis 24!). We currently have this working as a test in our latest release and it is also working in our Media Room in Los Angeles with extremely satisfying results.

Future will tell how these needs evolve.

The Mimesis 20H: Historical Converter from Goldmund

We recently announced a new Mimesis 22 History analog preamplifier, and to make the celebration complete, Goldmund also created the Mimesis 20 Historical D/A converter.

In 2001 the Mimesis 20M was already considered as the absolute D/A. The Mimesis 20 Historical is now a concentrate of the most advanced technologies ever developed by Goldmund. With a noise rejection even better than the Alize 7, a chassis built with the latest "Asymmetrical Mechanical Grounding" construction, the double AC-Curator introduced first in the Eidos Reference, and more internal adjustments than even the Mimesis 20.7, the Mimesis 20 History will without any doubt surpass the expectations of the most demanding audiophiles.

The Biggest Proteus System Ever Installed

The biggest Proteus 2-channel system ever has recently been installed in Mr Chan's audio Room in Singapore . It includes 10 Telos 2500 and a Mimesis 32 powering a full Epilogue Signature. It is currently configured in 2-channel but the owner is already thinking of using Proteus Multi-channel by adding surround speakers and subwoofers. It is probably the best 2-channel system we ever heard so far. As in the other Proteus installations, the playback room acoustics and size completely disappear, leaving everything perfectly recreated in space. The sound is astoundingly natural and real thanks to the Leonardo correction included in the Proteus Software.

New Proteus Demonstrations at the Singapore Hifi Show
 
In November, High End Research participated to the Singapore Hifi Show where the team made several very important demonstrations showing the effects of Proteus 2-channel applied for the first time to speakers from other brands than Goldmund. The Sonus Faber Amati and the Wilson Sasha were driven by 6 Telos 250 and a Mimesis 32 loaded with a specific Proteus 2-ch for these speakers and including a complete Leonardo correction.

The sonic result was astonishing of clarity and preciseness on both speaker models and the playback level without distortion reached levels that certainly neither Wilson nor Sonus Faber ever heard.

Groeten Jan

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[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund gaat z'n Blu ray spelers uit de Eidos serie voortaan voorzien van een aangepast Oppo loopwerk

Goldmund Eidos Blu-ray players: Oppo Inside

Goldmund announces that its Eidos Blu-ray units will now be equipped with Oppo players. After thorough testing of several
different Blu-ray players, our engineers concluded that Oppo provided the best technology to achieve maximum quality
both in video AND audio playback. Interestingly enough, tests showed that the audio playback represented the biggest
improvements over previous Blu-ray players that were used in the Eidos line. The feedback on the level of performance
from distributors and final users who purchased the first units was immediate and unanimous: they were absolutely
ecstatic. A quote we received by one of them follows:

"I would say in one word 'AWSOME!' both audio and video; the owner and all his friends had no single doubt."

Bron: nieuwsbrief Goldmund

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Wat nieuws over de Metis  producten

New Metis Products

After the creation of phenomenal small
components such as the Metis 2, 3 & 5,
Goldmund completes its line with the Metis
One, the Metis DVD and an improved version
of the Metis Speaker. Now the Metis family
allows all kinds of systems to be built, both in
analog and digital, in 2-channel and multichannel,
and even in Proteus. We have also
sold some preliminary versions of the in-wall
Metis speaker, prefiguring a very high-tech
speaker we prepare to offer ultra-high quality
Home-Theaters at lower cost.
The remaining question is the need to widen
the Metis distribution channels to take
advantage of the large quantity capability of
such a line of products.

Bron: nieuwsbrief Goldmund

Goldmund Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Wat info over de Goldmund processoren:

New Acoustic Processors Applications

In addition to Proteus 2-channel, the Goldmund Acoustic Processors Mimesis 32, Mimesis 16 & 16HD (and finally the Metis
10 as well) have received several new functions in 2010 and will continue to do so in 2011. All these updates will remain
only software and will be implemented by the Universal Configurator.
In 2011, new standard room acoustic software modules for multi-channel systems will be released to better control the room
resonance and reflections. And we should soon have a serious improvement of the 7.1 PCM playback, to match some of the
upcoming films and concerts (which, finally, will really be mixed in 7.1 after nearly 8 years of fake 7.1...) and new Blu-ray
machines now available with 7.1 PCM outputs.
Our new Universal Configurator will receive more and more functions and you can expect to see as many new versions as
there are improvements in the processors.
But the very good news is that the use of the Universal Configurator will also become much simpler, allowing complex
systems to be configured in a heartbeat.
2011 will certainly concur to the clear trend started in 2009 to make the players decode their specific formats more and
more and leave the acoustic processors with only the noble task of improving the sound of your room.
We could also see finally some attempts from the market to introduce real 3D audio formats, a subject very carefully studied
by the Goldmund Fundamental Research Department.

Bron: nieuwsbrief Goldmund

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Wat luidspreker info van Goldmund:

The Logos 3,
the Giant speakers that will kill all other subwoofers, is a "domestic" version of the U-Logos 3 that Goldmund
created for its Media Room. With a bandwidth extending from 7Hz to 20 Hz, the Logos 3 is exclusively developed for playing
the LFE channel of large Home Theaters. It is a passive speaker that requires a Telos with high power and high speaker
control (the minimum is a Telos 350) to deliver its brute force.
The Epilogue 3 Signature by opposition is the most sophisticated subwoofer for the most sophisticated speaker in
existence: the Goldmund Full Epilogue Signature.
After the Epilogue 1 Signature and Epilogue 2 Signature, it is the last part of a Full Epilogue Signature system. With a
bandwidth completing perfectly the Epilogue 2 Signature and a power sufficient to play LFE frequencies with the dynamics of
an Epilogue system, it provides incredible foundation in music applications and incredible transparency in the LFE effects in
multi-channel.

Bron: nieuwsbrief Goldmund

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

En wat nieuws over de Telos-3500 mono eindversterker

New Reference Products

The Telos 3500 is now shipping. We consider this is the best amplifier ever made by Goldmund.

Bron: nieuwsbrief Goldmund

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Wat details van de Goldmund - Telos 3500

POWER
Maximum Continuous Power:
3500 W for 2 Ohms
1750 W for 4 Ohms
875 W for 8 Ohms

Maximum Instantaneous Power:

Maximum instantaneous current: 130 A peak
Maximum voltage swing: 110 V peak

FREQUENCY RESPONSE These figures are valid for the circuit alone, at any level between 0 and nominal power.

+/- 0.1 dB, 0 - 300 kHz,
+/- 1 dB, 0 - 800 kHz.
+/- 3 dB, 0 - 2.5 MHz.

GROUP DELAY

Propagation delay < 100 ns stable with frequency from DC to 200 kHz.

DISTORTION

THD + N input stage analog: 0.0005% (1 Vrms input, 80 kHz bandwidth measurement) Unbalanced in and for any input attenuation settings (flat with frequency, 20Hz - 40 kHz)
THD + N input stage + DA: 0.0005% (0 dBFS, 80 kHz bandwidth measurement) Unbalanced in and for any input attenuation settings (flat with frequency, 20Hz - 40 kHz)
THD + N amplifier:
< 0,01% for max power
< 0,001% for power below 1000W

CIRCUIT SPEED

Slew rate: > 200 V/us
Rise time: < 200 ns

NOISE

Signal to noise ratio: > 116 dB

POWER SUPPLY

12 separate transformers
Hyper-velocity rectifiers and large batch of 12 ultra-low impedance capacitors to increase speed

OUTPUTS

1 x 5-way binding post and 2 x Goldmund Speaker cable Lemo connectors

INPUTS

RCA Digital S-PDIF Input and Output
RCA Analog Input

PROTECTION CIRCUIT

Telos original protection circuit against overload acting in less than 10ns to protect the extremely fast circuit

DIMENSIONS & WEIGHT

Dimensions: 390 W x 470 D x 620 H mm
Weight: 180Kg

WARRANTY

3 years, parts and labor

3500 - Power AmplifierDelivering 3500 Watts RMS with the lowest distortion figure ever measured, the Goldmund Telos 3500 is the best and most spectacular power amplifier currently delivered by Goldmund, directly inspired by the famous limited series Telos 5000. Like its illustrious predecessor, it can drive any loudspeaker with true ease, providing an incredibly powerful sound. But with a few more years of refinement, its improved sonic delicacy makes it totally unique.

The Telos 3500 circuitry is the latest enhancement of our 30-year old circuit that made quite a few generations of audiophiles consider Goldmund the Master of Power Amplifier design. Several R&D developers have painstakingly added layers of subtle evolution to this schematic building one of the longest continuity stories in the Audio design art.

The comfort brought by the Telos 3500 multiple safety features makes it not only a work of art but also a comfortable companion to music lovers able to drive any ultra high end speaker system. And the Human Interface is so simple and safe, that the Telos 3500 is now considered the most luxury-oriented product of the Goldmund family.

The hard brass structure and the subtlety of the traditional Goldmund metal finish applied to the aluminum external surfaces make the Telos 3500 a sculpture more than an amplifier. The first proud owners all decided to make them highly visible, positioning them as a work of art in their decoration.

With its extreme sophistication and price, the Telos 3500 will unavoidably become one of the most valuable collectibles among privileged audiophile collectors and music lovers.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Specificaties van de nieuwe Metis DA convertor

Many of you requested a USB converter to complete the Metis line. It is now available for order.
Delivery is planned at the end of October.

Here are more technical specifications about this product:
Digital Inputs Dig In 1: S/PDIF coaxial and toslink
Dig In 2: USB AUDIO (up to 96kHz/24 bit)
Analog Outputs 2 x Analog RCA outputs (left and right)
D/A Converter Circuit
2 x Goldmund ultra-linear phase proprietary circuitry enhanced Alize 6 with enhanced dynamics
Bandwidth: 20Hz-20kHz -0.2dB typical
Typical non-linearity : below 1dB at -100dB
Typical phase error between channels: < 0.5degrees
Output voltage: 2Vrms unbalanced, 4Vrms balanced THD < 0,001% (0dBFS, 80KHz bandwidth measurement)
Front Panel Controls
2 Leds (Lock and Power)
Power
2 Separate power transformers
Nominal AC line voltage: 115V or 230V
Input voltage range: +/- 15%
Size
Overall dimensions: 300 mm W x 305 mm D x 60 mm H
Warranty
3 years, parts and labor.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

NEW! The Metis 8 2-channel Processor

A new Metis unit, the Metis 8, has been created by our R&D team for customers who are only interested by a stereo system. Like the Metis 10, it will offer the possibility to use Proteus configurations with the Goldmund Universal Configurator allowing a much better sound and the use of high volume levels without distortion.
The Metis 8 will be available in October.

Technical specifications will be available soon.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

A New Web Page on Goldmund Technologies

A new page is available on our website for those of you who are High Tech enthusiasts.
It explains in detail all the technologies Goldmund developed and is presently using in its products.
White papers can also be downloaded for the most science versed visitors.

Link naar web pagina: http://www.goldmund.com/technologies

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund komt met een nieuwe "universal player" in de Metis lijn, deze speler is gebaseerd op het Oppo 93 loopwerk en kan via iPhone / iPad bediend worden.
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Groeten Jan