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Ken Ishiwata, dies aged 72.
Sad news reaches us today: Ken Ishiwata, legendary hi-fi personality and audio engineer, has died. Ishiwata died on 25th November, 2019, after an illness.
"L'art doit produire un choc sinon ce n'est pas de l'art" - Yevgeny Mravinsky.
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Ken Ishiwata, connu pour avoir travaillé chez Marantz depuis 1978, très respecté dans le monde audiophile. :jap:
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"L'art doit produire un choc sinon ce n'est pas de l'art" - Yevgeny Mravinsky.
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Bonsoir Raoul et Jean-François

Je te remercie Raoul de nous avoir signalé sa disparition qui sinon serait malheureusement pour moi passée inaperçue.

J' avoue n' avoir aucun produit Marantz de la période qui le concerne même si des petites choses comme le Project T-1
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me plairaient bien.

Je retiendrai une conversation entre Ken Ishiwata et Saul Marantz au début des années 80 dans laquelle ce dernier lui disait:

""" J' ai fait autant que possible avec la lecture LP Mono et Stéréo, maintenant à votre tour de faire quelque chose avec le Compact Disc """

Je pense qu' il s' est pas mal débrouillé avec ce que Philips lui fournissait :jap:

Il a dans tous les cas, par ses talents, réussi à maintenir cette maison parmi les grandes firmes commerciales dédiées à l' audio.
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Salut Jean, Jean François,

Trois liens pour vous :

http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/interv ... _ishiwata/
http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/In-Mem ... -Ishiwata/
http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/Ken-Ishiwata/

Bonne soirée à tous. Jean Marc
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KEN ISHIWATA’S CAREER

1968 • Came to Europe to work for Pioneer
Early 1970s • Left Pioneer and worked for the company that was military market representative for Sony, Pioneer, Minolta and Canon.
1975 • Set up business as a fashion photographer
1978 • Joined Marantz as Technical Coordinator
1979 • Took additional job working in speaker development
1980 • Became involved in product development for total Marantz range
1986 • Appointed Marantz Senior Product Development Manager
1996 • Appointed Brand Ambassador for Marantz

In memoriam Ken Ishiwata (1947 - 2019)

Ken Ishiwata was undoubtedly one of the greatest characters to grace the modern hi-fi world. He was a huge personality, yet emerged from a time and a place – postwar Japan – that had little time for such exuberance. It wasn’t ego that made him stand out from the crowd, but rather his immense passion for music, hi-fi and design. Indeed Ken was actually a quiet, gentle and modest man who sometimes seemed uncomfortable with his transition into something approaching hi-fi’s very own rock star.

The most important special modifications that Ken Ishiwata ever did were to budget Marantz CD players, however. “The high point of my career at Marantz is without doubt the Ken Ishiwata Signature CD player series”, he once said. “The CD-63 KI Signature is a classic – many hi-fi reviewers still keep these in their collections. It’s not the most neutral sounding machine, but it has a very special sexy sound. What many don’t know is that I did these modifications to many Marantz products, going back to the LD-50 loudspeaker system, at the end of the nineteen seventies.”

Ken’s first job at Marantz in 1978 was solving the problem of misunderstanding between the Japanese engineering group and European quality control department. “I learned so much by doing this, then I turned my attention to loudspeakers, and then electronics.” He had been building both since his early teens back in Japan, so was very much in his element. Indeed Ken crafted his very own copy of the iconic Marantz Model 7C preamplifier, having borrowed one from his father’s friend to reverse engineer. He couldn’t afford premium components so used the cheapest generic capacitors, diodes and resistors he could find. “I was so shocked to discover it didn’t sound anywhere near as good as the real thing!”, he once told a group of journalists. “That was down to component quality.”

When asked to look at Marantz electronics in the late nineteen seventies, Ken realised that the sound wasn’t at all like the classics of the fifties and sixties. “So I began to talk to Marantz Japan about this and involve myself in the product design. This led to me starting to work on CD players. Compact Disc came in, and things changed forever. Actually, the new Red Book CD standard wasn’t good enough for really high level sound, but we understood that it had to be set where a big company could make a product at a reasonable price. At the time, I didn’t know anything about digital audio at all, so it was fantastic to learn from the masters at Philips. It informed the knowledge and experience behind my Special Edition CD players.”

The original Philips CD100 – the company’s first-ever silver disc spinner – was a good machine, but when the Marantz version came out, it had some modifications to improve it further. “We made some changes to the power supply and in the digital filter. We were very happy with the results. To be honest, rival machines like the Sony CDP-101 were no comparison! Then, technology progressed and Philips eventually came out with their 16-bit, four times oversampling chips. At that time, we had about three thousand CD-45s sitting in the warehouse in the UK, and the managing director asked what we were going to do with them. ‘Maybe we should sell them for ninety-nine pounds?’ The marketing manager didn’t want that, but it seemed like we had no choice. So I said, ‘Wait a minute, I am going to modify these 14-bit machines, and I’m going to make the most musical CD player available, and then we’re going to sell them for fifty pounds more!’ We finally decided on a limited edition run of two thousand. I did my modifications and took a prototype to a classical musician friend of mine, and he was amazed. So it came out – and they all sold out within two weeks. We said, ‘what a pity we didn’t have more machines to modify!’ That was the birth of the Special Edition.”

From then on, there was no turning back, and Marantz enjoyed a purple period in the nineties when it defined itself the purveyor of budget audiophile products that sounded better than their price rivals. “After the CD-45LE, we did the CD-65 and CD-75 Special Edition, and then every year we had a new model – like the CD-50SE, CD-52SE, CD-63SE, CD-67SE and CD-6000OSE. Each generation didn’t have a new chipset – until 1989 when Bitstream arrived – because fundamentally the digital filter was working very well. But we did change the mechanisms, the CD100 had a CDM0 type mech, and the CDM1 followed. This was the original swing-arm transport, complete with diecast parts. These had better trackability compared to the linear tracking designs the Japanese manufacturers were using. But this did have its problems – it was heavy, and the position control was done by servos which required high current, and this affected the noise floor. We ran with swing-arms through the CDM3 and CDM4 right up to CDM9. After that, it was linear, parallel-tracking like the Japanese. Those early Philips/Marantz machines always sounded very different from the Japanese rivals because they had better swing-arm transports and superior 4x oversampling DACs and digital filters. Even our S/PDIF chip was better – that early Philips S/PDIF chip was the best one ever made.”

Ken Ishiwata, 1947–2019
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Bonsoir , je suis surpris que personne ne parle de la mort de Graeme Allwright ......... tous trop jeunes ?
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Jolie bouteille, petit garçon, il faut que je m'en aille… et toutes ces chansons de colo quand j'étais mono avec ma guitare, j'en ai fait chanter des gosses… Il y a 3 jours encore je révisais "Suzanne" avec ma Fender, c'était un très bon guitariste. P... je prends un coup de vieux, du coup.
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pas eu connaissance de l'info :/

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hencot a écrit : lun. 17 févr. 2020 19:23 Bonsoir , je suis surpris que personne ne parle de la mort de Graeme Allwright ......... tous trop jeunes ?
Ho merde, pas eu une seule info à par ici. :(

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Non pas trop jeune. Mais une carrière trop lointaine, peut-être ...
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