Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
Disclaimer: I am not claiming my demos are able to capture 100 percent of what the headphones are like. But I am claiming that it is my innovation from scratch and I am proud of it. And I am also claiming that it is the closest thing to a real demo that you can find online
Also for those people that may question "if I am listening with my headphones, would it not just sound like my headphones"
LEGIT question. Let me answer that with my theory. If you are very well aware of what your headphone sounds like, then you can certainly decipher from what the original song sounds like vs this recording (example; more bass on the recording compared to original track)
----> Because I certainly can
Anyways, really excited about this one. Enjoy