Goldmund nieuws

[papaleo]

Hier nog wat meer info over deze Edios 20,met een retail prijs van $16,900 

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1042

[jan-rotterdam]

Hier nog wat meer info over deze Edios 20,met een retail prijs van $16,900 

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1042

Als dat de US prijs is dan verwacht ik de speler hier toch rond de € 12.000,- i.p.v. € 15.000,-

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Het user manual van de Eidos 20 BD Blu RAy speler staat op internet en daaruit dit citaat

Compatibility
Please note that the Goldmund Eidos 20BD is compatible with the following formats:
- Blu-Ray Disc Region A
- BD-RE: version 3, JPEG
- BD-R: version 2
- DVD Video Region 1 or All
- DVD-RAM: version 1.1, JPEG, Format AVCHD
- DVD-R/RW: format DVD video, version 1.1, format AVCHD
- DVD-R DL: version 1.2, format AVCHD
- DVD+R/+RW/+R DL: format +VR, format AVCHD
- Audio CD.
- CD-R/RW : format CD-DA, format MP3, format JPEG
- SACD
- MP3

Link naar manual

Groeten Jan

[papaleo]

Is volgens mij de eerste Blu-Ray speler welke ook SACD afspeelt,mmm... maar dan wel weer geen DVD-A

[papaleo]

edit/off topic....

Pioneer komt binnekort met zíjn 'High-end' Blu-ray speler,de BDP-LX91 welke SACD én DVD-A afspeelt..

"All we know so far:
Profile 2.0
Decode All Audio Formats
SACD/DVD-A Support"

[jan-rotterdam]

Is volgens mij de eerste Blu-Ray speler welke ook SACD afspeelt,mmm... maar dan wel weer geen DVD-A

Ik heb de vraag uitstaan of het waar is dat de Eidos 20BD geen DVD-Audio afspeelt, alle andere spelers van Goldmund doen dit namelijk wel dus mogelijk foutje in usermanual

Groeten Jan

[Shorty]

Volgens een verontwaardigde reactie op een ander forum zou de Eidos, gelet op de foto's van het interieur, "een Pioneer met een ander lade" zijn. Dus als die Pio BR-spelert geen DVD-A doet, dan ook de Eidos niet... Overigens neem ik aan dat Goldmund nog wel 'iets' meer heeft gedaan dan een ander loopwerkje in de Pio, plus een sjiekere kast. 

VrGr,

Bart J.

edit: na enig gegoogle kwam ik op de Goldmund website. Daar staat een plaatje van het inwendige van de Eidos 20 ("it is a Blu-Ray machine, even if also a universal player." Dus óók SACD en DVD-A).
De 2 grootste prints en het loopwerk zijn van Pioneer. 1 printje (zo te zien voor de bediening) komt van Goldmund zelf, evenals de kast, de transportla (niet het loopwerk) en de transformator.... Of die paar wijzigingen het prijsverschil rechtvaardigen mag gelukkig iedereen voor zichzelf bepalen.

[Teejoo]

Ik had ook echt niet verwacht dat een firma als Goldmund een blu-ray player vanaf de grond had opgebouwd. Dat kost gewoon echt veel geld en kennis, wat kleine high-end firma's gewoon niet hebben. Ik verwacht zelfs dat de bediening net zoals de pioneer is, en dat die print ergens anders voor is, voor de kwalitatief betere aansluitingen bijvoorbeeld.

[El Penumbra]

Ik had ook echt niet verwacht dat een firma als Goldmund een blu-ray player vanaf de grond had opgebouwd. Dat kost gewoon echt veel geld en kennis, wat kleine high-end firma's gewoon niet hebben. Ik verwacht zelfs dat de bediening net zoals de pioneer is, en dat die print ergens anders voor is, voor de kwalitatief betere aansluitingen bijvoorbeeld.

Zelfs voor kwalitatief betere aansluitingen zou het prijsverschil 'fors' zijn.

[Teejoo]

Zelfs voor kwalitatief betere aansluitingen zou het prijsverschil 'fors' zijn.

Oh ja, zeker een absurde prijs voor een speler in een tijdperk dat net dit type hardware zeer snel verouderd. Het zou pas leuk zijn als men iets dat even krachtig is als de ps3 als basis gebruikt hebben. En dan helemaal stil en audiofiel gemaakt.

[jan-rotterdam]

Nieuwe D/A convertor in aantocht

We heard it mentioned several times already by the Goldmund development team, but it is now more clear that the final D/A used in the Telos 5000 will NOT be an Alize 6 but something far more sophisticated (tentatively called Alize 7 only to differentiate it). Using the same dynamic enhancement principle as the Alize 6 but with a much better jitter rejection and an even higher dynamic range, it should be another step ahead in sound quality.

What the first units of the Telos 5000 are clearly showing is that this new D/A circuit is far too large to be lodged in a Telos 600 and 2500.

However, it is logical to think that a monoral Alize 7 D/A converter unit could be announced before the end of the year, providing a logical step ahead for customers still using a separate D/A after their CD player.
In addition, it would be the ultimate upgrade for a Telos (except the 5000 and the other Telos already upgraded with an Alize6) in a digital driven system.

3d beeld weergave van Goldmund

3D movies have been experimented for decades in movie theaters with various fortunes. Recently however, serious producers and serious technological improvements have given hope for the future of 3D.

The Goldmund Media Room being a place where films are supposed to be better than in the best movie theaters, Goldmund started last year to investigate this controversial technology.

Today it is clear there is no serious technological difficulty to project a 3D film in a Goldmund Media Room. Double scan speed is only a minor change in Video projection equipment and the currently developed Video gear may integrate it quite easily in their specs.

The source to play for 3D film being mostly computer, this matches fine with the solution of the Goldmund film server, making a seamless transition between 2D and 3D films a reasonable expectation. The final solution is expected to be demonstrated next year.

Only glasses remain problematic. Not for technological reasons. After all, polarized glasses are already quite common. But for style ! Imagine Goldmund aluminum, mechanically grounded perfect glasses!

Just joking, its coming, guys!

Link naar bron

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Nieuwe info verkregen, de SR-serie verdwijnt uit het programma en daar voor inde plaats komt de "Metis" serie

• Metis - 10 kanaals digitale (universal) voorversterker: ca. € 4800,-
• Metis - actieve luidsprekers (set): ca. € 5800,-
• Metis - actieve subwoofer (stuk): ca. € 4300,-

The universal preamp allows up to 10 channels (6 speakers and 4 subwoofers) with any analog or digital sources.

The very thin digital cable provided by Metis can be purchased in any length and does not induce sound degradation.

The Metis speaker is built 100% in metal. It provides the extreme rigidity to adsorb the largest dynamic ranges of films and the reliability to sustain aging and dimatic changes.

Built-in 2 x 150 W Telos amplifier and Built-in D/A. One single RCA digital input.

De Eidos 20 BD Blu Ray speler gaat ca.€ 14.500,- kosten 

Groeten Jan

[Shorty]

Ik had ook echt niet verwacht dat een firma als Goldmund een blu-ray player vanaf de grond had opgebouwd. Dat kost gewoon echt veel geld en kennis, wat kleine high-end firma's gewoon niet hebben. Ik verwacht zelfs dat de bediening net zoals de pioneer is, en dat die print ergens anders voor is, voor de kwalitatief betere aansluitingen bijvoorbeeld.

Nee, dat had ik ook niet verwacht. De chips worden maar door een paar fabrikanten gemaakt. Maar dat betekent niet dat je aan de boards helemaal niks kan doen. Als je die kennis niet in huis hebt dan huur je die in - dat daaraan dan een prijskaart hangt is logisch. Maar het is merkwaardig dat Goldmund niets meldt over enige modificatie van die boards. Ik kan me nauwelijks voorstellen dat ze voor die paar veranderingen aan een Pioneer zoveel meer geld vragen.  Dus ze zullen er toch nog wel meer aan gesleuteld hebben. Hoop ik. 

VrGr,

Bart J.

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund komt met mono DA-convertors

You already heard the remarkable progress achieved using the Alize 6 upgrade in a Telos 600 or 2500. The higher dynamics and lower noise floor are creating an ambience and a precision never achieved before in digital.

Despite this achievement, Goldmund decided to push the research more on the D/A circuitry and the unit we are finally putting inside the Telos 5000 is another big step ahead.
Far too large to fit inside the Telos 600 or 2500, it was planned to remain the privilege of the Telos 5000 only.
Yes, but...

Since we are curious, we made a stand-alone version of this Alize 7 to include it in our listening sessions. And the result passed all our expectations. With the 3 stages of the Alize 7, the effect of the enhanced dynamics is even more dramatic. For this circuit, our engineers also added a higher-accuracy clock and further improved the jitter rejection stage, especially at lower frequency, where jitter is quite difficult to suppress.

The sonic progress is so dramatic that we decided last week to make it a new stand-alone machine: It will be called Mimesis 20, as the best D/A memories for an audiophile. But this time it will be called the Mimesis 20.7 of course and it will be only sold as a mono unit.
As a stand-alone mono unit it provides the ideal solution to input directly in analogue an existing Telos (all models, except the 5000 that already has it built-in).
We only had in our lines the Digin96 to do so and this was only an Alize 4.5. So, the improvement in such an application is of course fantastic.

For the passionates that continue to use a D/A only as a conversion unit for their CD player, 2 of the Mimesis 20.7 will be without par and a formidable improvement in their system.

With this new unit and the currently proposed Alize 6 upgrade for the Mimesis 20M (assembled by our Japanese distributor and sold only in Japan), Goldmund proves once again its care for the most discriminating analogue users.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Een foto van het inwendige van de nieuwe Telos-5000 eindversterkers

We finished the first Telos 5000 and we now have the production running at a maximum rate of 6 units per month. This is only limited by the production capacity we have and our mechanics subcontractors have been able to absorb.

En wat info over de Alize-7 DA-convertor

The first listening tests of our new top-of-the-line converter have confirmed the enthusiasm of our engineers.

If you appreciated the improvement brought by the Alize 6 in a Telos 2500, you know what we are talking about: more transparency, more space, more air. But this time, with the Alize 7 circuit, the improvement step is even larger.
In addition to the performance increase, the new unit provides both balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs, a very welcome feature for users not yet equipped in Goldmund.

We also remind our professional friends that Stellavox announced the Stellaox ST20, a professional stereo simplified version of the new Goldmund Alize 7.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund komt met nieuwe processoren inclusief "room correction"

The most important scientific development made by Goldmund during the last few years has probably been the Proteus Software (Read Proteus doc).

The result of that development is that the missing link in a top system, meaning the Room Acoustics itself, is now addressed in the most professional way by Goldmund.

The first application is clearly the Goldmund Media Room, which simply became possible thanks to the Proteus development. The spectacular results obtained in a Media Room proved that it was not a small step in the system�s global result.

But even more interesting, there is no fundamental reason why the best Audiophile systems installed around the world by Goldmund could not benefit of it as well. Making the system correct the room acoustics where it is installed is precisely the same process we apply for the Media Room and it involves the same technology.

With the introduction of the new coming Mimesis 16, it will now become possible to have your room acoustic corrected by the Goldmund electronics. And since Proteus has been designed to take into consideration any type of room size, shape and d�cor, the time where Proteus will be able to completely optimize your living room system is not far.

Link naar beschrijving "Proteus" software

Tevens komt er een losse "wonderbox" met daarin de "room correction"

In addition Goldmund will introduce soon a small analogue processor (initially called ironically the Goldmund Wonderbox), which should make the same correction available even for the purest analogue audiophiles without any digital device.

De Metis processor

As you probably already figured out if you owned one and are a careful Goldmund news reader, the small Metis 10 preamplifier is nothing else than a simplified Goldmund Mimesis 16. It means that its multi-channel capabilities are similar, but hidden to make its use and installation simpler.
And, by the same talking, it is also obvious that the room corrections (see above) have no reason not to exist even for a small Metis system owner in a near future.

The only missing link was a simple computer program to configurate the Metis 10 with the parameters generated by Proteus. A simple version of this is now becoming available to the best Metis dealers.

The most fascinating in this, is there is no fundamental difference anymore in the acoustic correction capabilities from the top elaborate Media Room systems costing Millions and the small Metis system installed in a your apartment. The beauty of scientific scaling�

Now it is clear that you will soon have the capacity to build a small Media Room in your living room by only investing a few more pieces of equipment (like subwoofers, coming soon from Metis)�.

When we said that the Media room would become scalable down pretty soon�

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Er staan gegevens van de Telos 5000 mono eindversterker op het internet

Delivering 5000 Watts rms with the lowest distortion figure ever measured, the Goldmund Telos 5000, the development laboratory of Goldmund for the last 3 years, is the best and most spectacular Power Amplifier ever made by Goldmund.

Developed out of the schematics of the Telos amplifier, the new Telos 5000 extreme specifications required the Goldmund Development team to create a few completely new circuits, some of them using technologies never used before in Audio Amplifiers.

The telos 5000 new circuitry includes a revolutionary full protection circuit for the amplifier itself and its associated speaker, a necessary precaution for the power capability and the increadible speed of the new amplifier, capable of delivering more than 200amps in a few nanoseconds.
The Alize 7 built in the Telos 5000 improves over any pre-existing designs in its ability to recreate 3D space by lowering the noise level to levels barely measurable.
The input circuit is also completely new, using four Class A modules of a completely new topology.
The output circuit uses 72 new Power Mosfets which are especially calibrated for the Telos 5000 and a cascade/bridged circuit of a new type to increase the amplifier's speed above anything ever achieved even in the other Goldmund Telos amplifiers.


The Hard brass construction is pushing the Goldmund Mechanical Grounding construction principle to a level never achieved before.


Alize 7 D/A converter completely new designed to create a final resolution above 130dB
16 separate high-power transformers developing a power close to 10'000 Watts
Transformers molded in an epoxy mix providong vibration and noise reduction

Maximum Instantaneous Power:
1510W for 8 ohms
3020W for 4 ohms
6050W for 2 ohms

Maximum Continuous Power:
1250W for 8 ohms
2500W for 4 ohms
5000W for 2 ohms
Maximum Continuous Current: 252A peak
Maximum voltage swing: 110V peak

Frequency Response:
+/- 0.1 dB, 0 - 300 kHz
+/- 1 dB, 0 - 800 kHz
+/- 3 dB, 0 - 2.5 MHz

Distortion:
THD + N input stage analog: 0.0005% (1 Vrms input, 80kHz bandwidth measurement), Bal or unbalanced in and for any input attenuation settings (flat with freq, 20Hz-40kHz)

Noise:
Signal to noise: >122 dB
A weighted: > 138 dB

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

Outputs:
2 x 5 way-binding post
4 x balanced Goldmund speaker cable Lemo connectors

Inputs:
RCA analog unbalanced input
XLR analog balanced input
RCA digital S-PDIF input/output

Size and Weight:
94 x 47 x 39 cm
Weight: 260 kg

Link naar datasheet

Groeten Jan

[jaco]

20+ ampere electra groep per mono blok nodig 

[jan-rotterdam]

En wat details van de nieuwe "Mythos 2" processor voor stereo opstellingen (bron: Goldmund webpage)

A completely new application of the Goldmund Processors developed by the Goldmund R&D team, the Goldmund Mythos 2 brings revolutionary new sound-processing capability to the most advanced audiophile analogue systems. The Mythos 2, as an Analogue Processor, brings to the best analog systems all the advantages of the other Goldmund processors, except for the multi-channel capability.

The capability to be included in a fully-analog system of the best quality implies the use of the new "high dynamics" A/D and D/A converters of the Alize 7 family, providing a sound transparency that avoids any influence in the final analog quality of the result.
It is probably this unique audio quality, never found before, that will make the Mythos 2 acceptable by the most incorruptible analog fanatics, even if the process inside remains in the digital domain.


Based on the Mimesis 16 design, the Mythos 2 is a 2-channel acoustic processor that can do most of what the other Goldmund processors can do:

Room acoustic treatment (mode suppression without time distortion)
Leonardo correction for Epilogue 1 or Epilogue 1+2
Speaker correction (Nautilus, Epilogue Reference)
4-channel mono crossover with any kind of filtering
And many other new algorithms to come

Groeten Jan

[Shorty]

252 A piek..... 

VrGr,

Bart J.

[jan-rotterdam]

Nieuws over de nieuwe Mimesis 16 processor

The most awaited products of the last few years, the Mimesis 16, will finally hit the shelves by October in its first version. We believe it is not only the best preamplifier ever made by Goldmund but a serious sign of the times to come.

In performance first, the Mimesis16 A/D version is of the Alize 7 family, using multiple A/D to increase its dynamic range and providing also the phase linearity of the now famous Alize 7 D/A circuit.

The Mimesis 16 simplicity for the end-user is also a serious progress over our previous generations, making it the most user-friendly preamplifier made by Goldmund. It is also in considerable progress for the facility of installation and tuning, even when using complex filtering configurations.

But the real step ahead lies in the DSP capability, with the associated configurator. It is now allowing each speaker�s driver to be separately adjustable in frequency response, phase response and time response and to introduce the Leonardo correction to compensate for any built-in crossover.

With the coming acoustic corrections brought by our Proteus software, its room correction capability will make the Mimesis 16 a revelation in all systems.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

en wat nieuws over een gerucht dat Goldmund "Ceramische luidspreker units" zou gaan gebruiken

We have to stop a forum�s rumor that ran fast these last weeks announcing new speakers from Goldmund ( a rumor probably based on the Epilogue 1 Signature announce) using one ceramic midrange.
Not true. And for a few serious reasons.

First the ceramic drivers we have tested have all serious frequency response flaws outside their bandwidth. If the driver is used properly, this can be made acceptable by filtering it strongly as many manufacturers have already proved.
But it is a totally different story when correcting the time domain, something that Goldmund does consider essential and the main reason of the �lifelike� Goldmund sound. The faults exhibited by the ceramic drivers (due to the sharp resonance of their membrane at high frequency), makes them difficult if not impossible to correct in time response.

Probably worse, they do not take well strong accelerations! Yes, you heard us. Acceleration! What Goldmund electronics do more than any other electronics is hyper-fast acceleration! Imagine the disaster in reliability we could get.

So no, do not believe this rumor. We have tested in depth this type of driver and appreciated its quality but it is not good enough for us, so we won�t use them.

    en toch werkt het goed: ceramische luidspreker units met Goldmund apparatuur !

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

En wat meer info en een foto van de nieuwe Goldmund Mimesis 20.7 mono DA-convertor

Goldmund has built its reputation of competence in the Digital Audio domain with two major steps in the D/A converter technology, the Mimesis 10 in 1990 and the Mimesis 20 in 1997.

Since those models, no separate outboard D/A converter has been developed but the D/A technology progressed continuously with the Alize 3, Alize 4, Alize 5 and Alize 6 circuits., all incorporated in the power amplifiers of the company.

Today, the latest generation of D/A developed by Goldmund has been created to equip the Telos 5000, the most advanced amplifier of the company.

To let the traditional users of an outboard D/A converter benefit of the new development, Goldmund announced in June 2008 the Mimesis 20.7, a mono D/A converter equipped with the exact same Alize 7circuit found in the Telos 5000.

The Alize 7 circuit uses the technology of stepped D/A already found in the Alize 6 but with a much more extended dynamic range (>130dB), and a perfect time alignment correction. The sonic effect is a much deeper silence, with greatly improved micro-dynamics and a spectacular transparency.

The Mimesis 20.7 is a mono unit, not only to maximize its dynamic range but also to allow multi-channel system users to match exactly the number of amplifiers they are using.
The Mimesis 20.7 provides unbalanced Spdif and balanced XLR inputs and outputs for the digital signal as well as balanced and unbalanced analogue outputs. The balanced and unbalanced inputs are selectable on the rear panel.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Goldmund Eidos 20BD regio vrij

Today, being global is not only trendy, it is a Must.

Even if the Goldmund Eidos 20 BD was clearly the most accurate Blu-ray player and had been celebrated as such all around the world, especially in the Media Room demos we made in Los Angeles, it suffered so far of a serious limitation by being reading only the USA zone´s discs, both Blu-rays and DVDs.
This is over.

All the Eidos 20BD we now deliver will read all Blu-ray discs and all DVD disks from any zones. And for those who trusted us and bought one already, we have an inexpensive kit available to update their machine.

If you have not yet tested the 20BD because it was not reading your local disks, this is the time to ask your dealer. In a top-performing system, the resulting image stability and the incredible sound transparency is such a surprise that nobody can resist.

And remember that Goldmund was not only the first to announce a high-end Blu-ray player, a few days only after the drop of HD-DVD by Warner, but is still the only company making one.

Groeten Jan

[jan-rotterdam]

Nieuwe eindversterker op komt, Telos-1000

With its 8th Telos model in 3 years, just announced by October 1st, Goldmund clearly establish that the company has not only achieved an absolute supremacy in Power Amplifiers for the Audiophile market but is also trying to fill all the niches of this market.

After the unbelievable sound quality reached by its Telos 5000 but at a price, Goldmund tries to come back on earth and to take better care of its best audiophile customers by providing a new model in the range of amplifiers performance and price where the company is the most successful.

The Telos 1000 is aimed at filling the gap between the Telos 600, the most sold Telos model and the Telos 2500, a large step ahead in sound quality but far more expensive.

So, not too surprisingly, the new Telos 1000 looks like a big Telos 600, sounds like a small Telos 2500 and is priced closer to the Telos 600. It is based on the same circuit generation as the two other amplifiers it completes, but its additional advantage is to offer the Alize 6 in standard and not as an option.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- 1000W on 4 Ohms FPP (Fast Pulse Power before clipping) mono power amplifier.
- Latest Telos circuitry as in the Telos 2500
- Thermal grounding full implementation with large gold-plated copper buffer plate
- 16 Separate power transformers
- New ultra-low impedance power supply technology developed from the Telos 5000 for a better
speaker control, especially at low frequencies
- Alize6 new high dynamics D/A converter
- Full DC, HF, overload, amplifier and speaker protection
- Balanced and unbalanced analog input with level adjustment
- RCA digital input / output with 96 kHz 24 bits capability.
- Size and weight: 62cm x 50cm x 37cm, 62 kg

Link naar datasheet

Groeten Jan