More News from Acoustic Sounds!

[MylesBAstor]

It begins! Tom Pessagno, longtime chief engineer with The Mastering Lab under the late Doug Sax, talks about the console he's designing for the mastering room at Blue Heaven Studios/Acoustic Sounds in Salina, KS. A while back we announced that Chad Kassem of Acoustic Sounds had purchased The Mastering Lab after Doug's death. We have completed the move of the equipment from Ojai, north of L.A., to Salina. Work has begun with Tom and Ed Hukoveh, Mastering Lab design engineer, to create a new mastering facility inside Blue Heaven; freshly cut lacquers will be plated and vinyl stampers created at nearby Quality Record Pressings.



Uncrating. Ed Hukoveh, design engineer with The Mastering Lab, the former mastering facility headed by the late Doug Sax, unpacks lathes and turntables shipped from the Mastering Lab's former home in Ojai, Calif. to Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, KS. Here at Blue Heaven/Acoustic Sounds, Ed and fellow engineer Tom Pessagno have begun work on a new mastering room using Mastering Lab equipment.

[MylesBAstor]

Chad on a recent West Coast swing visiting our own Mike Lavigne!




Chad with longtime customers and audiophiles Mike Lavigne (l) and Randy Wells (r)

[MylesBAstor]

Chad also visiting with David Robinson, co-owner of Positive-Feedback and Mark and my editor!

Dr. David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief, Positive Feedback Online, shows off some of the world-class reference gear used in evaluating new music releases. A sample: Merging Technologies NADAC MC-8 Quad DSD DAC, Lampizator Golden Gate tubed Quad DSD DAC, TIDAL reference preamp stack and Impulse monoblocks, and Agoria speakers. Racks are Stillpoints ESS racks with grid shelves and Ultra V isolation feet. Joining the lineup, a KRONOS Pro LE turntable, Wave Kinetics NVS turntable, and Walker Audio Proscenium Black Diamond Level V reference turntable with Procession amplifier. — in Happy Valley, Oregon.

[Rob]

that's history in the making, very cool.

[rockitman]

Nice !!!

[c1ferrari]

Chad on a recent West Coast swing visiting our own Mike Lavigne!

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Chad with longtime customers and audiophiles Mike Lavigne (l) and Randy Wells (r)

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Nice story and pics...lovely angle on the Studer A-820's

[MylesBAstor]

Nice story and pics...lovely angle on the Studer A-820's

Something about that angle that makes the EA's look even bigger than they are too.

[c1ferrari]

Wide angle lense distortion, perhaps? What may be the listening position appears visually closer than physical reality, too.