OraStream Interview
Audiophile Style
An interview with Frankie Tan and Kelvin Lee of OraStream. Based in Singapore, OraStream offers both behind the scenes technology and services to music streaming companies such as the Neil Young Archives, Naxos, and Primephonic, and it offers a direct to consumer application and service called Brio. If there is one technology that should be embraced by all the music streaming services, it’s Orastream’s MPEG-4 SLS offering. It’s a solution to real problems, that requires no special hardware or decoder, and leaves the audio signal 100% unaffected for those streaming with a good...
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RAAL-requisite Interview
Audiophile Style
I talk to Danny McKinney and Aleksander Radisavljevic of RAAL-requisite. Based in both the US and Serbia, RAAL-requisite is a partnership between RAAL and requisite audio. HiFi lovers are familiar with the terrific RAAL ribbon tweeters that Alex has developed over the years, but many are likely unfamiliar with requisite audio’s long history of making professional equipment for some the best musicians in the world, and Danny’s background as a professional musician prior to creating products for musicians and studios. As you’ll hear, this partnership is great, not only because of the...
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Dirac Research Interview
Audiophile Style
I talk to Dr. Mathias Johansson, Dirac Research co-founder and chief product officer, about the beginnings of the company in Upsala Sweden, its work with BMW, the current Dirac offerings for audiophiles, the differences between Dirac software and Dirac built into hardware, and many general DSP & room correction topics.
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Innuos Interview
Audiophile Style
I talk to Nuno Vitorino, the co-founder and R&D Director, of InnuOS about the beginnings of the company in his garage, the expansion to 39 countries around the globe, the current InnuOS offerings, how the company supports its customers, and where they are headed in the future.
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Volumio Interview
Audiophile Style
I talk to Michelangelo from Volumio about his background, the beginnings of the software and hardware products, and the current Volumio offerings. Michelangelo also gives candid answers to questions about Volumio’s subscription model, where the company is headed in the future, and the ten bonus questions, to which there are no wrong answers.
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Audirvana Interview
Audiophile Style
On today’s show I talk to Damien and Manuel of Audirvana about their backgrounds, the beginnings of the application, and the ins and outs of the newest Audirvana Studio release. Audirvana Studio has a few features unavailable in any other app on the planet, and it was nice to talk about the implementation of these directly with the team. The guys also give candid answers to questions about the new subscription model, Musicbrainz tagging, and where the company is headed in the future.
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Mitch Barnett of Accurate Sound Interview
Audiophile Style
Mitch has been involved in digital signal processing for many years, including writing a book and contributing several articles to Audiophile Style on the topic, and recently starting his own company called Accurate Sound. I talked to Mitch about digital signal processing, some of the myths and reasons people may have dismissed it in the past, and what we can look forward to in the future. Mitch also discusses his room calibration service, his new software convolution engine called Hang Loose Convolver, and something new he is working on.
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Aurender Interview
Audiophile Style
An interview with Aurender's Ari Margolis about the company's past, present, and future, as well as some highlighted products such as the S10, W20 / W20SE, and the new N20. We also talk about Aurender's first class customer support and where the company is headed in the future.
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Part 2 Rockport Technologies Interview
Audiophile Style
The conclusion to my interview with the team at Rockport Technologies. Rockport has crafted boutique high end audio products for 3 decades, starting with the Sirius turntable and transitioning into loudspeakers such as it groundbreaking Arakkis and Lyra models. Many Audiophiles who’ve heard Rockport products over the years place these speakers at or near the top of the list for the best loudspeakers speakers in the world.
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Part 1 Rockport Technologies Interview
Audiophile Style
An interview with the team at Rockport Technologies. Rockport has crafted boutique high end audio products for 3 decades, starting with the Sirius turntable and transitioning into loudspeakers such as it groundbreaking Arakkis and Lyra models. Many Audiophiles who’ve heard Rockport products over the years place these speakers at or near the top of the list for the best loudspeakers speakers in the world.
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