Kato Labs from Japan 💫

 

Kato-san personal mono system 

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The mythological “Mushroom Bell” drivers… a Jean Hiraga’s fave.

Kato-san, like other seasoned audiophile and purists, argued that acoustic depth (the perception of the distance of instruments from the microphone) is a property of the recorded signal, not of stereo. 

A well-designed mono system reproduces this depth perfectly. Stereo, on the other hand, adds an artificial lateral localization that doesn't correspond to the way one listens to live music in a concert hall, where the entire room is a diffuse source and no clear left/right separation is perceived.

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