[Br777]

One of my friends who owns a lot of decware and knows i'm into audio just sent me a link to this guy's site saying he was very impressed by it.
 
anybody ever checked this stuff out?
 
i was pretty surprised to see little if any discussion of it on head-fi
 
http://www.mother-of-tone.com/index.htm
 
 
 
From the Site:
 
Altmann Micro Machines is a german company focusing on the deliberate application of technology with the intent to improve customer's wellbeing through procreation of uplifting and joyful experience. Specialty audio products and developments with a number of applied patents include the Altmann Superlative 24 bit / 96 kHz Digital to Analog Converter, The AMM - UPCI - Ultra Precision Clock Injector -, the AMM JISCO - Jitter Scrambling Decorrelator -, the Altmann SPLIF - Split Feedback - Amplifier Topology-, The Altmann Tube-o-Lator lacquer - a coating that makes semiconductors sound tube-like, the Altmann Do-it-Yourself Tonearm, The Altmann BYOB -Bring Your Own Battery- high performance vibrationally optimized audio amplifier and the Altmann Attraction DAC, a new and unique DA converter that can play up to 192kHz audio without oversampling and features extensive jitter filtering with dual VCXO precision PLL, switchable JISCO function, tube-o-lator-treated R2R converter, high-precision I/V conversion, and high power output and a vibrationally optimized desging employing a musical spruce sound-board. The Altmann Attraction DAC is the first DAC worldwide that can play fast sampled audio with zero-oversampling, sample by sample with unrivalled acoustic performance. Altmann Micro Machines was founded in 1994 by Dipl.-Ing. Charles Altmann.

 

[Br777]

nobody eh..

 

[Head Injury]

All I got out of that was "snake oil".

 

[Uncle Erik]

A lacquer that makes chips sound like tubes?
 
Really?
 
Then again, B.S. makes flowers grow, and that's a beautiful thing.

 

[cifani090]

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A lacquer that makes chips sound like tubes?
 
Really?
 
Then again, B.S. makes flowers grow, and that's a beautiful thing.

Haha, i dont know what the sense was but i was reading how some people can notice a piece of paper or a coin under an electronic device.
 

 

[khaos974]

Here's one of the most memorable quite from the site
 
http://www.mother-of-tone.com/mother.htm
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This is the 'Mother of Tone' character.
 
Would your ears be made of aluminium, they would have a different tonal character. But this is not the point. The point is, that the tonal characteristic of your ear is the yardstick for any sound you are able to perceive, and that sounds are evaluated in a way that corresponds to the distance or strangeness with respect to the Mother-of-Tone character.
 
According to the Law of Attraction (like attracts like), the sound-character of a material that comes close to your own material is pleasing [emphasis mine], whereas a sound character starts to hurt, the less the sound emanating material has to do with your own cellular material.
This is a simple realization, but you can explain a whole musical world with it. The characteristic construction and material of your ear is the yardstick, and the more a sound comes close to that characteristic, the better you feel and the more you are attracted to that sound.
 
Try for your own. Listen attentively to sounds you like and dislike and see what materials are involved.
Okay, how to make use of that ?
Since we cannot make hifi-equipment out of flesh and bones, we have to look for a material that is at hand, and is related to our ears characteristic.
This material is wood. A cellular plant material. Ideal for the construction of musical instruments, loudspeakers, etc.
In fact, our whole body is put together by digesting plant material. Even if we eat a Steak, the cow has been eating plants before. So we are much more related to wood, than we are to ceramics, aluminium, plastics, steel or titanium. [emphasis mine]
This is the reason that ...
 

... Wood Sounds Good

 
So take everything with a grain of salt.

 

[sidel]

 

Since we cannot make hifi-equipment out of flesh and bones

  Who here wants to donate their body to science?

 

[beerguy0]

EUR 950 for a tiny amp board mounted on a slab of wood?

 
Right.

 

[Blue Boat]

This is more ridiculous than buying a spare set of SR-009s, imo. 

 

[Head Injury]

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EUR 950 for a tiny amp board mounted on a slab of wood?

 
Right.

But it's wood. Wood sounds good. As long as you eat your veggies.

 

[Redcarmoose]

They have designed the phono stage to work best with an 18 euro cartridge http://www.juno.co.uk/products/audio-technica-at91-cartridge-stylus/336004-01/ The phono stage is 950 euros! lol Get your boots on, it's getting deep.

 

[Redcarmoose]

http://www.head-fi.org/t/458637/fs-altmann-byob-amplifier

 

[Redcarmoose]

My first impression was that the soundstage was "condomized" – that is, wrapped up in a giant condom. Safe sound is not my idea of listening pleasure. What was needed was more feeling, less veiling, in a word - more intimacy.
 
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0506/zero_oversampling_dac.htm
 
 
 
 
You gotta love this stuff...........classic salesmanship at its finest.

 

[Br777]

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My first impression was that the soundstage was "condomized" – that is, wrapped up in a giant condom. Safe sound is not my idea of listening pleasure. What was needed was more feeling, less veiling, in a word - more intimacy.
 
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0506/zero_oversampling_dac.htm
 
 
 
 
You gotta love this stuff...........classic salesmanship at its finest.

 
you do realize he's talking about a different product than the one we are discussing here, and that he was totally blown away by the Altmann dac... just sayin.

 

[Redcarmoose]

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you do realize he's talking about a different product than the one we are discussing here, and that he was totally blown away by the Altmann dac... just sayin.

I totally realize that, just think the description is funny.