Meet the Artisans
29/09/07 17:23 |
About us
We are proud to be working with some talented people
who take great care in what they do. After working many
years to get their home audio system to sound as close
as possible to live music they have abandoned
commercial audio products and developed their own
offering. As well as being exceptionally competent at
what they do they are also great people!
Thom Mackris (Galibier Design)
Thom lives on the front range of the Rockies in Colorado and plays guitar, skis and goes rock climbing. He has incredibly sensitive hearing and has innovated tirelessly to develop his turntable range and create a very successful business in Galibier Design.
Thom played a pivotal role in the collaborative development of a turntable that became the Redpoint Testa Rossa, together with partner Peter Clark, who lives in Arizona. This geographic separation proved too challenging to sustain and the partners ended the partnership amicably with Thom setting up Galibier.
Thom is a strong advocate for directly heated triode amplification and horn speakers. He maintains that only this architecture has sufficient resolution to convey nuance fully. He attributes the success of his turntable's design to his love of bluegrass music - acoustic instruments, complex rhythms and wide dynamic range that all expose the limitations of a compromised turntable design.
Knut Cornils (Valvet)
Knut, who lives near Hamburg, is an electronics graduate who designed medical electronic systems professionally. He didn't like the commercially available amplifiers so decided to build his own. To his surprise it was better.
Friends asked him to build amplifiers for them too and as word spread, Valvet was born. Knut is passionate about using high quality components in a minimal circuit (e.g. no protection against shorting the output terminals) because he has determined that adding complexity degrades the sound. His amplifiers are beautifully finished and the internal circuitry is a work of art.
Carlo Morsiani (Morsiani)
Carlo lives in an un-restored farmhouse in a rural location near Bologna, Italy. He has worked tirelessly to build a system that satisfies his requirement (he loves classical music). He has embraced class D amplifier technology, balanced amplification, active crossovers and uses a pair of classic bass bins in his horn system.
The results are truly stunning in terms of effortless power and realism. Carlo manufactures his own turntable design (which is conceptually similar to the Galibier) and his own unipivot tonearm. Due to limited production capacity and global demand, be prepared for a lengthy wait for one of Carlo's tonearms!
We believe that his tone arm is a classic, with its unique, patented magnetic variable anti-skate, and Carlo is probably the closest we have met to a genius yet!
Thom Mackris (Galibier Design)
Thom lives on the front range of the Rockies in Colorado and plays guitar, skis and goes rock climbing. He has incredibly sensitive hearing and has innovated tirelessly to develop his turntable range and create a very successful business in Galibier Design.
Thom played a pivotal role in the collaborative development of a turntable that became the Redpoint Testa Rossa, together with partner Peter Clark, who lives in Arizona. This geographic separation proved too challenging to sustain and the partners ended the partnership amicably with Thom setting up Galibier.
Thom is a strong advocate for directly heated triode amplification and horn speakers. He maintains that only this architecture has sufficient resolution to convey nuance fully. He attributes the success of his turntable's design to his love of bluegrass music - acoustic instruments, complex rhythms and wide dynamic range that all expose the limitations of a compromised turntable design.
Knut Cornils (Valvet)
Knut, who lives near Hamburg, is an electronics graduate who designed medical electronic systems professionally. He didn't like the commercially available amplifiers so decided to build his own. To his surprise it was better.
Friends asked him to build amplifiers for them too and as word spread, Valvet was born. Knut is passionate about using high quality components in a minimal circuit (e.g. no protection against shorting the output terminals) because he has determined that adding complexity degrades the sound. His amplifiers are beautifully finished and the internal circuitry is a work of art.
Carlo Morsiani (Morsiani)
Carlo lives in an un-restored farmhouse in a rural location near Bologna, Italy. He has worked tirelessly to build a system that satisfies his requirement (he loves classical music). He has embraced class D amplifier technology, balanced amplification, active crossovers and uses a pair of classic bass bins in his horn system.
The results are truly stunning in terms of effortless power and realism. Carlo manufactures his own turntable design (which is conceptually similar to the Galibier) and his own unipivot tonearm. Due to limited production capacity and global demand, be prepared for a lengthy wait for one of Carlo's tonearms!
We believe that his tone arm is a classic, with its unique, patented magnetic variable anti-skate, and Carlo is probably the closest we have met to a genius yet!