GOLDMUND - Swiss Made High-End Audio Equipment

Delivered a few months ago with the first Pre-serial of Chiasma servers, the Goldmund Library Software has already been claimed as the most advanced media distribution software existing.

With its unique notion of multiple users with different databases, and multiple simultaneous players all working on multiple IP-based wireless Receivers and wireless Remote Control screens, the Goldmund Library Software has already no equivalent.

The release 2 which is due to ship by September 1st but is already on test in pre-release at the Los Angeles Goldmund Center ads spectacular exchange capabilities between remote Chiasmas. Using a central server in Switzerland, each Chiasma can exchange (with the proper authorization to do so controlled by our Swiss Server) music or films over the Internet with another Chiasma. This allows you to communicate and transfer your media between two or more installations, even if one is in Europe and one in the USA.

The Library Database system may now also receive and import automatically MP3 music received from various sources and properly organized on any computer linked to the Chiasma.

In addition to these import and export capabilities, the database of a Chiasma may now be automatically exported to a more sophisticated database system like Oracle, for more advanced statistical or accounting purposes, especially in professional applications.

For controlling a Chiasma and the Library software, there is no better tool than one of the recent Tablet PCs which appear everywhere these days. We picked the best one we found, the Motion Computing, and are using it when selling a large system with Home Networking as well as in our demo systems.

It is the best looking and most practical tool we found so far. If you are a Goldmund dealer and want to use it, please contact us to get a quotation.

The future new Goldmund Digital Video products are already in prototype for testing in our Los Angeles Demo House.

We have there a prototype of the Goldmund projector, in its release 1, and soon its release 2, we also have a nice looking DVI router which can switch between DVI sources and can send DVI to two different displays (see below).

We also have experimented 2 different samples of the DVI scaler that should become the first Goldmund Digital Video processor.

As you may see, the Goldmund Video product collection is already quite impressive. However, since these products are more there as in a laboratory, do not expect us to show them to every visitor yet… Maybe, if you are lucky we will be using one when you come…

The other products visible these days are a totally silent version of the new Chiasma 11, not released yet and an updated version of the Chiasma 1, more advanced than the units we distributed already in preserial, which were more noisy and with less disk capacity.

The latest version of the Chiasma 1 server is now assembled with a totally silent power supply and no processor fan, the 2 hard disks being isolated inside a protective enclosure, making it dead silent for use inside a demo room.

The Goldmund Epilogue and Logos speakers are, as you well know, totally built in metal with all the benefits of the Goldmund “Mechanical Grounding” construction. The sound quality this provide is already well established.

But some of the side benefits were quite unexpected.

Having a totally inert enclosure makes the radiation of side and back of speakers literally disappear. Having for first advantage to suppress most of the room’s speakers location critical adjustment burden. Quite interestingly, corner effects, ground effects and even ceiling effect seem to literally disappear, making the aesthetics of positioning far easier to control.

More, where most speaker need serious damping and acoustic treatment in regular rooms, with the Epilogue and the Logos this seems quite unnecessary, providing an acoustic far more natural and allowing to put the speakers in a regular leaving room without redoing all the decoration. Gone is the dead ambiance that provides analytical but dull sound, as found in most typical Home-Theaters today. Gone the huge cost of literally building the room especially.

In the Demo House in Los Angeles, Goldmund decided to display this advantage by leaving the rooms as they were in the construction, putting the speakers without care where they were convenient, even putting the Logos inside shelves, where usual wood speakers would sound awful. The result is quite spectacular, with an extremely open sound very relaxed and extremely dynamic. Most of our first listeners compare it to a horn speaker dynamics, but without the coloration and phase rotations.