Visit the factory: PSI Audio Highend studio monitors made in Switzerland

So I had the pleasure to visit the headquarter and factory of PSI audio (Relec SA). They are located 2.5 hours drive from where I live. I went down there with another gearslutz guy (Manolo) and met James Drake, a studio technician/recording and mixing engineer from the UK, who works in Switzerland for 2 years now. Thank you very much Marc, Fabrice, Alain & Crew for hosting us and feed us with sandwiches, wine...

Heritage Audio – 1073/500

  I had the pleasure to review the new Heritage Audio – 1073/500. It takes 3 slots in my lunchbox, so it must be something good or I wouldn’t allow it to take so much space. From the website: • 70dB Class A Microphone preamplifier, HI-LO selectable minimum input impedance, balanced and floating. High gain positions show a higher impedance, ideal for old ribbon mics. • 10dB Class A Line...

audio geeky with George – Part 3 : from monitoring to the end of the speaker

Having sold dozens of pairs during my time at a distribution company and visiting approximatly 300+ studios in Switzerland and south-Germany, I have some experience with people (more important then the speaker itself) and acoustical environements. The process: Monitoring is fun. At least if you look at the various ambitious marketing-strategies from different manufactureres. You go into the store (the digital or...