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The Eidos Reference is a mechanical challenge, even for the best Swiss mechanical workshops. For a few parts, we are totally depending of only one supplier and these guys are late once again. We were supposed to deliver a few units in September but we now can plan them only for early October. Very sorry for the impatient buyers who are waiting for the first units.

You will not see more of it before it is out… And we carefully blurred the picture so you will not see all the details but here is the final PCB layout. The circuit, larger than the JOB 4 is also capable of far more current to drive low impedances. With a separate input stage, mechanically decoupled from the output stage, it is less prone to mechanical resonance and vibrational feedback, dispaying lower “time coloration”. Also considerably more stable and protected against most mishandling, the JOB 5 is anyhow even faster than the JOB 4. Its first product apparition should be by the end of the year in the long-awaited Mimesis 600.

In fact, only the frame is new, and the above picture is only of a prototype so the final frame could be slightly different. However, the speakers are not, new since they are the current Logos mini activce and the Logos Sub.

What is spectacular is the quality of the combination. Assembled properly and with the Sub level properly adjusted, the “Small Epilogue” ( as everybody is calling it already) is capable of an incredible 23Hz-20kHz bandwidth and of fabulous dynamics.

The frame prototype has been designed initially in Japan by our sister company Stellavox Japan. But after the success it received there, we have decided to make it a Goldmund standard product. It should become available very soon.

This software release has been ready for long but could not be made available before all the Millennium users switched to the Release 1.1. Finally we decided by September 1st we had waited enough and we put the new release on the website for download. In addition to the statistics of use, the not-so-new release 1.2 displays the user manual and offers the digital input switching in standard, since most lately-delivered Millennium amps have the digital input assembled.

And to answer a now more and more frequent question, yes, we are still manufacturing the Millennium since the 50 pairs have not been reached yet. However, with the current sales level, and knowing we only have 7 pairs left, the Millennium series should be finished sometimes in 2005. If you need a pair, you better hurry…

USB or Serial port, no difference !

With the quick success of the Mimesis 24 and the Mimesis 30, and soon with the SR8, many dealers, installers and even, Goldmund customers need to connect a computer to their favorite “Universal Preamplifier” in order to optimize its configuration, In most case, a loptop is used and less and less of those laptops have a serial port, needed to connect the preamp to the computer.

Be reinsured. All today’s computers have USB connections and there are numerous Serial to USB cable adapters for sale in good computer shops. So, connecting your laptop to your Goldmund preamp is not difficult anymore since you may use a simple USB connector. And we know it works perfect, we only use this type of cable now at the factory.

Goldmund announced by early September that the US distribution company called Goldmund USA is now 100% owned by the Swiss company. The move was needed to better integrate the heavy marketing investment needed for establishing Goldmund on the US market. Lisa Steinberg has been named Chief Operation Manager for the US company.