About the Designer of the HCA-2200II
We created the Parasound
John was the designer of the Mark Levinson
whose performance justified its stunningly high price, it inspired the emergence of the high end audio indus- try. He designed the mastering recorders used by Wilson Audio and Mobile Fidelity, the mixing consoles used by the Grateful Dead for concerts and recordings, and electronics at the site of the famed annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Most recently he redesigned the recording electronics for Stereophile Magazine.
John has published definitive articles on advanced circuit design and the influence of different capacitor types on the reproduction of music. He designed the Symmetry electronic crossover, SOTA head amplifier and collaborated with noted Finnish designer Matti Otala in explorations of the phenomenon of Transient Intermodulation Distortion.
John also builds the wonderfully musical, quiet (and very expensive) Vendetta Research phono preamplifi- ers which have earned rave reviews in Audio, The Absolute Sound and repeated Class A distinction in Stereophile. He designs and builds the products the top reviewers purchase for their own listening pleasure. Those who can afford his designs have been a privileged few. The
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