[Tokolosh]

Junji Kimura has got to be one of the most amazing engineering designers I have ever come across. Mind-boggling to say the least.
Check out the true meaning of high-end products.

 

Features:
World's smallest number of parts - 9 parts per channel ( excluding attenuators )
World's shortest signal pass length - 32 m/m ( including the length of parts )
World's shortest NFB loop length - 9 m/m ( including the length of the resistor )
World's smallest filter/condenser - 1000µF, (50W version - 2200µF)
Powerful voltage regulation with high capacity transformer - 170 VA cut-core transformer +-individual coils
Dual mono construction with each channel in a separate chassis.
Rigid and compact aluminum chassis construction to release vibrations smoothly.
Separate 12-position attenuators for each channel.
Can be up-graded into a pair of complete mono amplifiers by adding another Model 4700 Power Humpty.

^^^That^^^ is a mindfuck! 9 components!

 

His name is Junji Kimura, an eminent engineering designer in Japan.
A passionate audiophile and an established audio engineer, particularly that of LP playback systems and tube components, Kimura found himself more and more frustrated with the sound of CD playback systems. Unlike LP, which offers a rich and fresh musical presence with ambiance, CD, to Kimura's ears, sounded too thin and sharp, too electrical. Despite all the information it contains, CD was far from providing musical satisfaction.

Kimura was frustrated, also, by the cost and complexity of technological development and by the complexity of charts and graphs that track the measurements of sound but cannot reveal the quality of that sound. Instead of rejecting CD, however, Kimura decided to apply his proven engineering talents to the task of creating a CD transport that would elicit the best sound possible from CD.
After three years of experiments and developments, a prototype of his CD transport, a massive chunk of metal construction weighing almost 50lb, was presented at1995 WCES. It was enough to attract many dealers' attentions and offerings, but not complete enough for Kimura to release as a final product. Read more...

PS: Don't bother looking at the prices.

[jon boy]

cool.

[Tokolosh]

Eat your heart out.

 

Specifications

Digital output : 2 Coaxial (RCA) outputs
Dimensions : Model 4713 170(w)x60(h)x245(d)m/m
Model 4799 130(dia.)x195(d)m/m

Features:

Full-hard-suspention system

The platform/casing of Flatfish is a 2/3 inch thick, machined aluminum board. All the driving mechanisms, pick-up mechanisms and the circuits are directly mounted on this one piece of aluminum board.
The huge difference between the mass of the mechanisms and that of the platform (150g against 1200g) enables to cut off the vibrations caused by the slight off-centering of the disks and the tracing mechanisms returning to the bit-tracing lens itself, allowing us to minimize the amount of servo control dramatically.
This rigid and compact structure of the platform has a very small surface area to receive the vibrations, and its large mass helps to reduce the vibrations smoothly and effectively without any extra damping or suspensions.
As a result, storage of vibration energy was minimized, letting us achieve a refreshingly quick transient response. Compared to the conventional box-type chassis/casings, this platform is almost completely free from any stress of construction. Now, you can hear how much harmony and bottom-end information was obscured under those mechanical stresses.

[jon boy]

i love when people find interesting and innovative ways of producing things. very interesting thankyou.

[Rob Instigator]

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