For Immediate Release
Tim Marutani Consulting / Blue Coast World
Plaza 1 Ballroom
California Audio Show by Dagogo, July 15-17, 2011
Crowne Plaza SFO, 1177 Airport Boulevard. Burlingame, CA
Emeryville, CA • 6/27/11 • Tim Marutani Consulting, in association with Blue Coast Records founder and engineer, Cookie Marenco, has assembled a state-of-the-art sound system for the Crowne Plaza SFO Hotel’s Plaza 1 Ballroom. The three-day display will include live performances, which Marenco will record direct-to-DSD twice daily and upload immediately for free DSD downloading. Question and answer periods will follow each recording session.
Marutani Consulting has also arranged a host of panel presentations. Thanks to Concord Music Group, First Impression Music, and Five/Four Productions, Michael Bishop, co-founder of Five/Four Productions, will play many of his live-to-stereo DSD masters. Selections will include new FIM re-releases of great Telarc Records DSD titles as well as previews of previously unheard Five/Four direct-to-DSD masters.
Bishop, former chief engineer at Telarc Records, has been privileged to record icons of the music industry for over thirty years. His releases have helped define the sound of popular, jazz, blues, and classical music for the record-buying public. For his efforts, he has received nine Grammy Awards, Japan’s Grand Prix Award, Gramophone Magazine’s Record of the Year; and multiple Surround Music Magazine and RIAA Platinum Album awards.
On Friday and Saturday, another industry leader, Grammy and Emmy award-winning producer and engineering veteran, Bill Schnee, will present live-to-two-channel, 24-192k recordings of several artists featured on his new audiophile label, Bravura Records. Schnee produced and engineered many of the legendary Sheffield Lab direct-to-disc recordings, including those of Thelma Houston, James Newton Howard and Friends, The Drum Record, The Track Record, etc. Grammy nominated eleven times for Best Engineered Album, he has over 135 Gold and Platinum albums to his credit. Bravura Records’ new breathtakingly live, high-resolution studio recordings must be heard to be believed!
Randomly throughout the show, Marutani will play Reference Recordings 2-channel DSD and high-resolution PCM masters (in HRx 176.4 kHz/24 bit format). In addition, attendees will hear sneak previews of vinyl test pressings of upcoming Reference Mastercuts LPs. Since 1976, Reference Recordings has produced outstanding audiophile-class classical and jazz releases engineered by the legendary “Prof.” Keith Johnson. Johnson has received the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album as well as 8 Grammy nominations for Best Engineering.
Tim Marutani Consulting’s state-of-the-art main system in the Plaza 1 Ballroom will include Magico Model Q5 Loudspeakers ($59,500/pair); Constellation Audio Altair linestage preamplifier ($65,000); Constellation Audio Hercules power amplifiers ($140,000/pair); Continuum Audio Labs turntable system ($100,000); and a computer source consisting of a Zalman TNN300 with no moving parts and external supply, Win XP, Pyramix 6, and Mykerinos card ($10,000). Also featured are a Mike Spitz ATR102 ½”, ½ track with Mike Spitz hybrid repro using copies from running masters (n/a); Pacific Microsonics Model Two converter for 1x, 2x, and 4x LPCM files (n/a); and Merging Technology DSD DAC (n/a).
The room’s second reference system will include Technical Audio Devices (TAD) Model CR1 Compact Reference loudspeakers ($37,000); Constellation Audio’s not-yet-released or priced Performance Series linestage preamplifier ($TBD) and stereo 250 watt power amp ($TBD); and other outstanding equipment.
Separately, Blue Coast World will host a panel entitled DSD -- Then, Now and Tomorrow. Scheduled for Saturday July 16, 1-3pm in the Peninsula Ballroom, it will be moderated by Marenco and Chris Connaker of Computer Audiophile.
The panel will include original members of the Sony DSD design team. Speakers will provide a history of the DSD recording format, and explain how it led to the development of SACD discs and high-resolution data files. Guest speakers include Gus Skinas of the Super Audio Center, Leslie Ann Jones of Skywalker Sound, and Michael Bishop, with others to be announced.
For further information, please contact Tim Marutani Consulting at tim@marutaniconsulting.com or (510) 652-1911.
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