Audio Esoterica

INTERVIEW

AUDIO ESOTERICA: What makes you most proud about the new 5000 Series?

SUSUMU KUMAZAWA: Of course I am most proud that we finally we have a total system — from pick-up to speaker, all with the same concept of sound quality and technology.

AE: And how do you describe the sound quality?

Sk: So that’s a key point, the sound concept, as from this year we’re using a new concept to cover all our AV products, and that is ‘True Sound’.

AE: ‘True Sound’ is different to Yamaha’s longstanding ‘Natural Sound’ tag?

Ah, yes — so we have used ‘Natural Sound’, and we will continue to use Natural Sound for hifi. Natural Sound means maybe the character of the sound, but True Sound has

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