The Company.
Based in Tokyo we were established as Robert Koda LLC in 2008.
The Philosophy.
Our brand exists because we have something uniquely special and timeless to offer serious music lovers. Our values are one of truth in the spirit of music as in business. Our customers are the commissioners of each amplifier and are therefore of great importance to us.
The Producer.
Robert Koch has decided to come to market with his view of the audio world having realised that his equipment was capable of transfixing not only himself but all those who have heard the system.
While it is true that Robert worked under the guise of the legendary Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note (Kondo) Japan in Tokyo, Robert is actually self-trained and an independently motivated creator of audio electronics.
Interest and research into the interaction between technique and musical satisfaction began at the very early age of 12. While well within the era of the transistor and the chip, ironically it was the vacuum tube technologies that were first dabbled with in the beginning, a child not
shunning the new world's technologies but using accessible materials in the journey to learn about these electronics concepts.
It was a musical home from which Robert was raised, music and high-end audio always important. His mother and father's purchasing of a new home would invariably involve the analysis of acoustic suitability of the main living room before selection.
Combined this with more than 16 years experience in the field of high end audio distribution, retail, installation and servicing and all the contact available through this career with vast arrays of current equipment of these times, a hounding sense that things could be done by him and be done right has played a major role in his life. All of this culminating with the journey from South Africa to Japan and the manufacture of Kondo equipment under the guise of the (in)famous Hiroyasu Kondo.
Continued personal efforts had lead to a system that by 2004 summarised the results of this life long work. Its architecture was both simple and elegant, yet redefined the inherent structure of digital / analogue playback technique. Yielding a propinquity to completeness not experienced before on replayed music, the system was deemed startling in its unique ability to
transcend the sound of transistor or vacuum tube.
The invitation then is made to all listeners to be free of the sound of "high fidelity" and become intimate with the sound of music available from this Extended Fidelity product range that has been brought to bear with so much care. Robert’s belief in what he has achieved is carried now with a product carrying his name “Robert” and the name of his wife’s grandfather’s company that spun the fabric favoured by the Emperor of Japan in its time, “Koda”.
“The desire now to offer fellow music listeners the same complete listening
experience finally persuaded me to produce commercially available options -
the Robert Koda brand.”