More from the WAX event coming up, but for now, here are the videos of the mastering panel I moderated featuring Bernie Grundman, Kevin Gray, Chris Bellman and Rob Tame (not in the above photo).
The Döhmann Helix 1 turntable, designed by Mark Doehmann appeared at Munich's Hi-End 2015 show in not quite finished form. At RMAF it was there finished, though perhaps with a few minor cosmetic tweaks still to come.
Demoed at previous shows in a “mock up” body, Air-Tight’s new PC-1 Magnum Opus made its final-form debut at RMAF mounted on a Graham Phantom Elite installed on a Transrotor turntable in the room of importer Axiss Distribution.
On display and in use for the first time at RMAF in the On a Higher Note room was a brand new tone arm designed by the exceptionally talented Frank Schröder (hang around with him for a few minutes and you’re sure to learn something new about tone arm design).
Donald Rumsfeld once famously said "You go to war with the army you have not the army you want". While reissuing Miles Davis' iconic Kind of Blue is hardly as consequential as invading a country, in context of our little musical and sonic world it probably is.