Tomiko Kohjiba is an increasingly sought-after composer in the United States and Europe, as well as in her native Japan. Born in Hiroshima, she graduated from a high school connected with Hiroshima University. In 1979, she entered the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and continued studies at its graduate school, earning her doctorate in composition. Before entering the University she had composed an Introduction and Allegro for Orchestra, a quartet for two alto flutes, cello, and harpsichord, and a choral work, Kotobaasobi-Uta, which won…
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<I>Festival!</I> The Best of the 1995 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival The 1995 Composer In Residence
Sidebar 2: The 1995 Composer In Residence
Sidebar 3: The Conductor
From 1977 to 1985, Heiichiro Ohyama played viola with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival where, in 1992, he became artistic director. He also holds appointments as: Artistic Director of La Jolla SummerFest; Music Director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, and the Japan America Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles; Principal Conductor of the Round Top Music Festival in Texas; and Director of Conducting and Orchestra Programs and Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Ohyama…
Sidebar 4: Who Was Who, What Was When, What Was What
Producer/Musical Director: Heiichiro Ohyama
Production/Engineering/Editing: John Atkinson
Executive Director, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival: Erich A. Vollmer
Executive Producer: Larry Archibald
Assistant Producer: Gretchen Grogan
Assistant Engineer: Wes Phillips
Road Managers: David Hendrick, Doug Chadwick
Piano Technician: Michael Blackwell
Booklet notes: John Atkinson, Wes Phillips, Deborah Carley Emory, Tomiko Kohjiba
Booklet illustrations: Janice St. Marie
Booklet Design: Suey Surprise
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Editor's Note: Although this product has been available for several years, it is being reviewed in considerable detail because it is a strong contender for the title of "Best Available Loudspeaker System, Regardless of Cost," and because we plan to review some of the other contenders for the same title within the next few issues. We feel that since all of these systems represent a considerable outlay of money, prospective buyers should have a thorough understanding of the merits and demerits of each system, so they will know what to expect from them in the way of performyince capabilities and…
The effect, of this, in most rooms, was an impression of slightly excessive brilliance and low-end deficiency. Placing the edge of each panel right against a wall of the room helped to bring up the bottom, but not to the degree of linearity that was obtained with the panels together. And the against-the-wall arrangement necessitated putting the speakers too far apart for adequate center fill-in. On the basis of this, we placed the panels together for the rest of our listening tests.
To date, nothing we had found seemed to suggest that this system was worth anywhere near the $1140 the…
JGH summarized the KLH Nine in October 1968 (Vol.2 No.10):
KLH Nine: Low efficiency, highly reactive loading characteristic, and superb transient response make this speaker extremely critical of the driving amplifier and input signal cleanness; drivers well-blended; tweeter highly directional, best heard off-axis; sound very smooth, liquidly transparent, likened to a spotlessly clear window on the sound; "Row-M" perspective places sound rather behind panels; somewhat cold sound; two panels (one complete Nine system) essentially flat to around 40Hz with panels together, gradually rolled-…
Sidebar : Specifications
Description: Full-range electrostatic loudspeaker. Amplifier power requirement: 5OWpc minimum, 75Wpc maximum. Impedance.: 16 ohms nominal (30 ohms max), primarily resistive. Polarizing supply: separate for each speaker, 115V AC, 5W.
Dimensions: each panel, 70" H by 23½" W by 2 7/8" D.
Finish: Choice of mahogany, walnut or oiled walnut.
Price: $1140/pair (1966); no longer available (2006).
Manufacturer: KLH Research & Development Corp, Cambridge, MA (1966).
Time magazine has chosen Albert Einstein as the Person of the Century. As the great man said, everything's relative, so in this installment of "Fine Tunes" I'll cover a few relatively inexpensive tips for homeowners, or those building their own audiophile domiciles.
Say you own your own home. Let's also imagine that you've built a pretty decent listening room. How's the bass? Does it seem to "leak" out of the room when you crank the system? Adding subwoofers won't help a room that leaks bass through flabby walls. On the other hand, a concrete bunker isn't ideal either. That kind of room…
Although advertising copywriters would have us believe otherwise, there is not a lot of true innovation in audio. Most audio products are based on well-established principles, perhaps refined in detail and execution. Of course, some products do take novel approaches, but they tend to be too off-the-wall to be taken seriously, or simply don't do the job as well as more conventional products. What's really exciting is to encounter a product that is audaciously original in concept, yet makes so much sense that you wonder why no one even thought of it before (footnote 1).
I am, of course,…
To ensure that no electronic nasties reach the equipment connected to it, and that the Power Plant itself is protected from damage, PS Audio has taken a comprehensive approach. It starts on the input side with a megahertz-range filter to deal with any radio-frequency energy riding on the AC. Catastrophic protection is provided in the output stage by opto-isolators placed across the emitter resistors. When a predetermined voltage drop develops across the emitter resistor, the opto-isolator sends a signal to the Power Plant's microprocessor, which shuts down the power activation relay.
In…