[NEW! REVIEW: Yayuma ASP 01 Sound processor]

YAYUMA ASP 01 Processor is something completely new on the audio market. It does offer an approach which nobody touched before, neither  thought about or  mentioned as a source of the distraction which should be addressed as responsible for the final results we are getting on the recorded material . With their PONA own very unique algorithm they are coming to the table with something what might become in the near future a mandatory equipment in any music recording studio. Please follow then complete excellent write up by Marek Dyba to learn more about it.

For now it however still isn’t , which is a shame as putting it another way if it would no one would need to have one at home as music would be already corrected and an errors free  for the end listener. Let’s hope then that the recognition and implementation will come very soon for all us together mutual benefit.

We are keeping our eye close on that and already had an open relationship with manufacturer. So it might be just a matter of time when we will bring that machine to the UK and start to actively promote it . Maybe we can make it to the recording studios as well , so soon some better output will become available for the stream. But as Marek points in the review it is not just about the digital stream or CD playback. In the way it works it does apply to the analogue playback in the same way as it does to the digital, so it is even double worth consideration as whatever your source is it is going to be vastly improved, as the weak point is steel in the same place .

Review’s Summary :

…. “All the subsequent listening sessions confirmed my initial observations and also what the manufacturer clearly states. The performance of the ASP 01 processor is directly dependent on the quality of the recording and on how it was made (processed in studio). Definitely Yayuma worked best (making sound most realistic and authentic) with the older – jazz, blues, classics – albums that were recorded and processed still in analogue domain, with as little “interference” to the original material as possible. Quality contemporary projects also benefited from Yayuma’s algorithm with more energy and information in the sound. To put it simply – with the ASP 01 the music sounded more natural, more real, more engaging. On the other hand Yayuma is not an answer to poor quality of recordings. If at the production stage material is heavily processed, hence significantly modified compared with what a microphone “heard” during recording, this Polish processor will not be able to do anything about it. If you are a fan of these music genres that are not associated with high quality sound, that use a lot of compression and so on, then most likely you won’t find ASP 01 particularly helpful or worth its price. However, if you are into jazz, vocals or classic music, particularly if you listen to a lot of recordings made in “analogue times”, adding Yayuma to your system might be a great, although risky move. Appreciating what this device does to the sound is not simple and takes some time (hence listening to ASP 01 for, say, half an hour does not make much sense), but once you embrace this remarkable, authentic sound parting with it might be extremely painful. I know something about it, because I write these words 2 weeks after the processor left my system. Without it, listening to music even on my beloved system got less interesting, less exciting, there is still something missing in its performance and experiencing music is simply incomplete.” …