All,
Just introducing the other members from Zero Distortion. Doing in-house demos will be Bill who lives near Reading (Wokingham) - with his Focal Maestro Utopias and SS Analog Domain, Kuzma Stabi Ref, Triplanar, Aesthetix IO Sig, Lampi. It becomes easy for the two of us to listen to gear at each other's places, and we have a good understanding and calibration of each other's ears. We can also exchange constructive feedback without getting sensitive, and respect each other's ability to keep the ears in check. With his background as a first trombonist in a semi-pro orchestra and love for classical, we click. And it was he who actually coaxed me into blogging about my experiences.
The other member is actually much quieter on the gear side. He is from the US, a professor at Berkeley, who has been collecting vinyl from the 1960s
When we decided to start the blog with a classical bent, for the music, vinyl (and sometimes non-vinyl), can you do better than an astronomy professor who plays piano, viola, and violin, and owns two grand pianos including a Bosendorfer? Who has built up a collection of around 15000, including 6000 original Deccas and EMIs over the last 50 years, plus around 1000 tapes, about half are 15ips, 2track? Who attends around 70 concerts a year and was actually present at many of the concerts performed by the legendary conductors and performers, concerts which were later recorded onto a Decca that is today considered an original collectible? Who, on Winston Mas request, wrote a book about the history of Decca Records of the UK, focusing on the era of stereo analogue recording, from the mid 1950s to the early 1980s? The book, titled Decca:Supreme Stereophonic Legacy came out in 2014 and included 4 FIM CDs which were remastered excerpts from many of the greatest Decca classical recordings of that era.
So here's our page on classical, music, vinyl, etc - all managed by him
http://zero-distortion.org/music-notes/
And here's about Larry in his own words. http://zero-distortion.org/about-larry/
Just introducing the other members from Zero Distortion. Doing in-house demos will be Bill who lives near Reading (Wokingham) - with his Focal Maestro Utopias and SS Analog Domain, Kuzma Stabi Ref, Triplanar, Aesthetix IO Sig, Lampi. It becomes easy for the two of us to listen to gear at each other's places, and we have a good understanding and calibration of each other's ears. We can also exchange constructive feedback without getting sensitive, and respect each other's ability to keep the ears in check. With his background as a first trombonist in a semi-pro orchestra and love for classical, we click. And it was he who actually coaxed me into blogging about my experiences.
The other member is actually much quieter on the gear side. He is from the US, a professor at Berkeley, who has been collecting vinyl from the 1960s
When we decided to start the blog with a classical bent, for the music, vinyl (and sometimes non-vinyl), can you do better than an astronomy professor who plays piano, viola, and violin, and owns two grand pianos including a Bosendorfer? Who has built up a collection of around 15000, including 6000 original Deccas and EMIs over the last 50 years, plus around 1000 tapes, about half are 15ips, 2track? Who attends around 70 concerts a year and was actually present at many of the concerts performed by the legendary conductors and performers, concerts which were later recorded onto a Decca that is today considered an original collectible? Who, on Winston Mas request, wrote a book about the history of Decca Records of the UK, focusing on the era of stereo analogue recording, from the mid 1950s to the early 1980s? The book, titled Decca:Supreme Stereophonic Legacy came out in 2014 and included 4 FIM CDs which were remastered excerpts from many of the greatest Decca classical recordings of that era.
So here's our page on classical, music, vinyl, etc - all managed by him
http://zero-distortion.org/music-notes/
And here's about Larry in his own words. http://zero-distortion.org/about-larry/
