Revox Digital LS manual History

1.0The History

Since the invention of the phonograph, generations of investigators and engineers have worked to make perfect the quality of audio record and playback.

The power spring of these efforts is and was the dream of human beings to hold tight for ever irretrievable moments and, particularly, impressive musical experiences, and thus to make repeatable, so to say „live to hear“ again.

It's the goal to capture, to conserve, and to maintain for the posterity the fascination of the instant underwent via our senses. This fascination shall then be able to be echoed as really as possible at any time independently of location, time, and room.

The existing exhibits of painting, of photography, but not least of the modern technical media like movie, television, and video, are witnesses of this desire to „copy“ continuously these original, moment-bound events. With the invention of digital transformation and storage of tones and sounds one has come nearer to this goal by a formidable step.

Revox - since the foundation more than 50 years ago devoted to the storage and playback of sounds in a quality as high as possible - in recent years has taken care of the limb of the chain supposed as the weakest, in the most intensive and successful way: the loudspeaker.

In long-years‘ most intensive developmental work a system has arisen which opens a completely new dimension of sound reproduction. In cooperation with sound engineers from all over the world and by investments in an amount of millions it has been done to create the most exact speaker.

With the digital-active loudspeakersystems by Revox are abolished all faults hitherto well-known and relevant for playback of music as well as the weaknesses of conventional active and passive speakers inherent in construction. The intelligent compensations and controls are performed digitally and will enable this system to render any kind of music in an absolutely unadulterated way and in the best sense „naturally“.

By this digital signal processing Revox finally succeeded in completely compensating disturbing time delays. The fact that there are no completely phase-independent speaker chassis has prompted our engineers to make remedies once again. The result of this extensive work is the Revox patented circuitry principle of the negative output impedance for all speakers involved, which cares for correct rendering of pulses. This ensures an extremely dynamic and 'live' feeling of the music as close as possible to the original and the result is a perfect sound impression within the whole transmission range. The capability of exactly tracing natural timbres of voices and instruments is the absolutely unsurpassed force of the digital-active speaker systems by Revox.

The matter of course and the sovereignty in transforming any sound event into „acoustic experience“ are the sources of the intrinsic fascination of these „modifiers“.

They incorruptibly, neutrally, and authentically transform the digital audio signals offered to them in acoustic vibrations. These are characterized by unsurpassed precision and are perceived - at least under living room conditions - in nearly unlimited dynamics.

We experience the nearly perfect illusion of the original happening. The circle closes!

The capability of experiencing again one-time musical events true to the original in the own four walls has a name:

Revox digital-active speaker systems.

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