This is only true in a large room with no obstruction. Sound is said to be propagated as wave motion. I can easily put myself in that scene where the 87-year-old maestro was giving everything he could to his farewell performance and the orchestra was responding to its fullest capacity. It seems to me that those particles made unimaginable movements. which sounds as if the particles of the sound were colliding with one another and whirling in a thunderous march. Especially so when listening to the same music performed by the great maestro, Arturo Toscanini at his last concert of April 4,1954. I am all the more convinced of my belief when I listen to the swelling mass of sound in the mildle of Wagner’s Tannhauser overture. Translations by Hiro Yoshizumi, Sibatech Correspondent in Calgary, CanadaĪlbert Einstein said that motion is energy. Kondo's wife, Kazuko son, Yuji and daughter, Hisae.By Hiroyasu Kondo, Audio Note Co., Ltd., Tokyo Stereophile extends its condolences to Mr. Kondo's death, the high-end has lost one of its true originals. They are wrong to do so, because they are thinking like electricians." Kondo, despite his electrical engineering background, was scathing in his dismissal of designers who were obsessed with frequency response above all other considerations: "Many Japanese manufacturers put great importance on frequency response and tonal balance, neglecting imaging.
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Hiroyasu Kondo explained his musical tastes developed listening to his father's priestly chanting in a Buddhist temple plus a cathartic experience of the Fourth Movement of Toscanini's Dvorak New World Symphony that startled him at the age of 16." Kondo in 1996, described him as "an ethereal man who floated like a ghost in life. Kondo San and acknowledging his place in audio history. On behalf of Kondo San’s family, we would like to thank all those peopleįrom around the world who have sent tributes expressing their affection for Ashizawa San has worked with Kondo San for the past 16 years and shared Kondo San's passion for creating “perfect sound." The Kondo standard would flourish, he appointed his close colleague Masaki Ashizawa as President of Audio Note Japan six months ago. Kondo San had suffered ill health for some time. He was the Picasso of contemporary audio design. The Kondo ONGAKU amplifier willįorever be a symbol of his success. He was often referred to as the "silver smith" for his revolutionary use ofĪge annealed silver in his audio equipment. Reproducing the essence of artistic performance captured in recorded music. Japan in 1976, facilitating his desire to develop audio equipment capable of Hiroyasu Kondo, the second son of a Buddhist priest, was a professor ofĮlectronic engineering and molecular metallurgy. He is survived by his wife, Kazuko his son, Yuji and his daughter, Hisae. We regret to inform that on January 8th 2006, Hiroyasu Kondo, founder ofĪudio Note Japan, passed away peacefully in his sleep while attending theĬES audio show in Las Vegas.
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