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Krakow Sonic Society

Meeting #108

Kondo ONGAKU
Integrated amplifier

Manufacturer: AUDIO NOTE Co., LTD.
Price (when reviewed): 1 090 000 Jen
(ok. 100 000 EUR)

audionote.co.jp | OnGaku.pl

MADE IN JAPAN

Meeting place:
KRAKÓW – JANUSZ

POLAND

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No. 154 March 2017

No. 154 March 2017

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY | Meeting #108: Kondo ONGAKU - integrated amplifier | JAPAN

t was clear from the moment I knew I would receive Kondo OnGaku amplifier for a review that I would also want to listen to it together with my friends from Krakow Sonic Society. These meetings give us not only a chance to meet, talk and listen to some music together but most of all to learn about different approaches to music reproduction. We don't necessarily agree with each of them but we surely learn from them. It also doesn't mean that we all „learn” the same things – each of us differs from the rest and when confronted with audio products we react differently on both, emotional, and rational level. Each of us uses his own experiences as reference what he hears and confronts it with his personal „absolute” sound. This type of devices requires some time to settle in – mostly the output transformers do. Janusz has a complete system and there ...

No. 153 February 2017

No. 153 February 2017

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, meeting #107: ESOTERIC SUPER AUDIO CD, “Master Sound Works” | JAPAN

he Tokyo Television Acoustic Company was established in 1953. It was created to cater for the audio equipment needs of the newly set up national television NHK. Later, it changed its name to Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company, which is abbreviated to TEAC. The change of the name was connected with expanding the field of activity. Since that time, TEAC devices have been mainly associated with the audio domain. We can still find them in almost every recording or mastering studio. While I was working in the studio of Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Cracow, there was a TEAC’s DAT tape recorder, cassette players and two half inch multitrack (analogue) recorders. In 1987, TEAC entered the market of consumer audio, creating the ESOTERIC brand. Next year, we will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. It now offers integrated and two-piece amplifiers, as well as Super Audio CD players. For many years, ...

No. 152 January 2017

No. 152 January 2017

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, Meeting # 106: AUDIO VIDEO SHOW 2016 - BEST OF THE BEST vol. 2 | POLAND

I. I AM A WALRUS. OR AT LEAST I WISH I WERE, or a listening session with the first copy of the master tape of Magical Mystery Tour album by The Beatles lready more than a year has passed since my first ever meeting with the first copy of the master tape. It was the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles album (more HERE). It was one of the most important musical and audiophile events in my entire life. It turned out that this was the first time that I REALLY heard the album. Before that, listening numerous times to 24-bit files, then subsequent versions of the vinyl releases I only touched the surface, remaining completely unaware of how much I was loosing out. The sound of this tape played with a reel-to-reel Studer A807 was nothing short of phenomenal. Incredibly dynamic, with an overwhelming amount of details previously unknown to me, it turned it into an extremely deep and satisfying ...

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