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Hong Kong High End Hi Fi Expo 2006
This year we had the privilege to be joined by Masaki San of Audio Note Kondo Japan, Kevin Scott of Living Voice England, and Matsumoto San of Mactone Japan.
The equipment included two newcomers to this market :-
1. The mouth-watering Kondo 'GINGA' turntable. GINGA is the Japanese for Milky Way. This design involves some unusual features including a Kondo electronics power supply and a differentially damped aluminium and copper platter. The sound is powerful, calm and assured with a beautifully natural tonal balance.
2. The Living Voice OBX-RW loudspeaker system enjoyed its first international showing. The new model from this celebrated company has been developed exclusively with Kondo KSL electronics. The presentation is musically charming with an open, luxuriously expressive tonality. Its easy portrayal of scale belies its domestically acceptable proportions - a giant killer.
The ancillary electronics were an M1000 phono, GAKUOH monos with Western Electric valves, KSL SF-z transformer, and the new IO-m moving coil cartridge. The digital source was the 47Lab PiTracer with Kondo KSL DAC.
Not surprisingly, the sound created, despite the slightly difficult show time condition, was as one would have expected.
There follows some pictures.
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