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Esoteric word clock11/26/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Esoteric word clock tv#TEAC/Esoteric were building the antecedents of this, which currently sits in the top-end K-01 SACD/CD player.Īh yes, TEAC/Esoteric – Esoteric was set up in 1987 as a high-end sub-brand company by the outfit founded as the Tokyo Television Acoustic Company in 1953, just as state broadcaster NHK started TV broadcasts in Japan – so that’s another one celebrating a significant birthday this year. I remember being impressed when I had the first briefing on TEAC’s VRDS CD players, with their slick Vibration-free Rigid Disc-clamping system, then stunned when – at a show in Japan – I was first shown the Esoteric version, which looked vaguely like a lathe used to turn components for spaceships.Īt a time when CD players were using mechanisms like this They were coolly silver, looked like they’d been carved from solid blocks of aluminium and when you got to look inside, the engineering was amazing. Others, such as Accuphase, were ploughing their own obstinately retro furrow, still making products with that champagne gold, big VU-meter 60s/70s bling thing going on, while even the earliest Esoteric products looked like a cross between tomorrow’s hi-fi today and It Came From Outer Space. Why? Because in an age when so some of the Japanese big names were concentrating on ever more affordable models and ranges, and in the process coming up with products with that biscuit-tin clang to the casework, Esoteric always looked like I thought high-end Japanese hi-fi should. That’s equipment such as the Esoteric range I’ve long been lusting over at events from Japan to the High End Show in Germany, almost since the brand was launched in the late 1980s. Once you get past the cameras (surprise!) and electric ‘washlet’ toilet seats, you’ll find a pretty decent range of hi-fi, from more headphones than you’re ever likely to have seen in one place to some very serious high-end equipment. Yodobashi Akiba (Picture: Jocelyn Strob Simard) ![]()
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