Issue #121 - June 2008
Products
A new generation of D/A : The Alize 6 and 6.5 (or 7 !!!)
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.

