Talking about Mark Levinson, he played a crucial role in creating high-end audio
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2019
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He started Mark Levinson Audio Systems in 1972 in Woodbridge, CT. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Le...)
My friend Dave worked for Mark Levinson with his next company, Cello.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Le...
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Interesting interview. I worked at Mark Levinson Audio Systems for three years, beginning in late 1974. Mark's personality was definitely the primary force behind the company's success.
I've got the first audio system he designed for an automobile in my 2002 Lexus GS430 and it's awesome!
Daniel Hertz is Mark Levinson‘s latest audio company based in Italy. Mark said these are his greatest products to date that he’s ever had anything to do with it
Well done interesting historic interview.
Thanks for sharing as always!
Mellow and interesting guy and interview.
Very interesting. Your weekend shows are the best!!
Some of these systems are still out there. Last year I set up an Air Force Two turntable in the Hamptons for a guy with a Cello Suite, Palette, and Performance amps. I also worked on a system across from Lincoln Center with the massive Stradivarius speakers..
This guy is great! He conveyed a lot without saying much!
He played a crucial role in making stuff super-expensive, too.
Worth every penny
My audiophile journey started a long time ago with a Mark Levinson amp (ML-11). There was a time when I would have given a kidney for a No.26 and a pair of No. 20.5’s.
I LISTEN TO MY 26 JUST NOW THE 20.6 was stolen from me ALAS
THEN AGAIN I BOUGHT AUDIO POWER LABS CLASS A OIL COOLED JEWELS. SO TRANSISTORS DOES NOT REALLY CUT IT !!!
I had a demo at cello. They said if you are lucky Mark will come and talk to you. And on cue after a while he did. I think that was their sales routine.
ML had a crucial role in importing Korsun amps, re-badging them "Red rose" and raising the price to extremes.
sad you sound jealous -other US companies sacked all there workers and shipped the jobs to China he introduced us to some great products and upped there quality control and improved those companies products -the v8i in absolute terms was shit loads better than most products on the market -and most of us never would have even heard of them if not for Mark
@@roymindmybusiness6908 (yawn) ..all he did was add a .50 cent resistor. They know this from disassembling one. You need to go back to whatever high school you failed from. You are unworthy of any diploma.
@@roymindmybusiness6908 Nope. he was busted by audio engineers that examined the product, much like you should do with your sad life.
@@scottlowell493 Yeah Scott thank you for your "nothing contribution to Audio "-you'll go down in history for what ?jealous of Mark Levinson -busted for marketing a product
Wow, Dave is VERY diplomatic. Seems like a good guy.
You got the word right,
But he is still cool
Almost my whole system comprises of Mark Levinson, apart from the Wadia source. Just love their pre-amps and amplifiers from the Madrigal era.
It was always so expensive I couldn't even listen to it just in case I liked it.
@@JohnDoe-np3zk It's definitely on the expensive side, but the kind of expensive you can hear and feel.
I bought a MC pre-amp from ML in 1973 at the LA AES Convention.
Great history.
Everyone here will probably get on my case about this but way back when the Thiel CS 3 was introduced I heard it paired with a Levinson amp, preamp, and Transparent cables...man what dry playback system, it was way to clinical. If I'm not mistaken the Levinson amp had a regulated power supply for the input board and a regulated supply for the output stage and I'm thinking it's so tightly regulated that I feel like I'm listening to a piece of lab equipment.
The Cello Pallette sounds intriguing. Six bands for a graphic equalizer is minimal but for a parametric equalizer is a lot. Hmm...actually looking at the thing, it's evidently a six band graphic equalizer with knobs instead of sliders. What's intriguing is the phase control, and the blend setting on the equalizer. I guess the blend setting is what makes the equalizer screwup-proof. Phase seems like one of those shadowy things in audio that may or may not have an effect; of course in its extreme form if one speaker is out of phase with the other in stereo pair it's pretty obvious, but there are more subtle ways in which it can manifest itself.
It's a beautiful piece of equipment, all right. If I had a net worth of a bill, I'd definitely put out a small fraction of it on such a nice preamp. But I wonder if the parametric equalizer shouldn't be looked into a little more as an audio problem-solver.
From what I hear, there's also a difference in the era of the recording. LP's made after 1980 tend to be brighter than those before. Either that, or it's just that the 80's vintage records I have are less damaged by crappy styli than the older ones.
Murray Van Creme The later records were indeed brighter
Well they started to use digital mastering around that time. So maybe that's why they sound different?
Steve, can you compare the schiit freya + Mjolnir 2 VS pass labs HPA-1 as preamp and headphone amp. I have a old McIntosh integrated amp , a pair of b&w 603,and hifiman he1000v2. recently want to buy a pair of harbeth shl5 with a preamp with headphone amp. currently I use Chord Mojo to drive he1000v2. Hardly decide to buy a HPA-1 or schiit or Hugo2.
His original products were built to test instrumentation standards when almost nothing else was. The prices were fair, considering all costs considered.
Then things changed.
If he has a system I’d like to see a video on it
JOHN CURL TOLD ME THAT THE SCOUNDREL MARK NEVER PAID HIM FOR HIS WORK. SO MUCH FOR THIS ROTTEN PERSONALITY !!!!!
No one is angel, of cause he had some skeletons in his cupboard
I think that Mark Levinson is Jewish.
Like Steve Guttenberg.
Silly question? What's are the fidelity implications of running run a system with a single monoblock, such as I do with Mark Levinson's No 23? What am I missing?
One channel
Dave and his 8 foot tall Acoustat electrostatic speakers. th-cam.com/video/_3u7bK5jyE4/w-d-xo.html
I wonder if Richard S. Burwen was the guy Dave couldn't call to mind with regard to who designed the Cello Audio Palette?
Yes! Lot's of additional info on Mark and etc on the Daniel Hertz website, very interesting stuff!
I am pretty sure it was Tom Colangelo Who designed the cello audio palette Burwen May have been involved. A mint condition pallet is being sold as Skye Fi now for $19,000. It’s worth every penny.
I replaced my Levinson
20.6 Class A monoblocks with Audio Power Labs Lundahl filled ClassAOil Cooled 572 Svetlanas and The TNT 833 200 watt Class A ! Transistor Amps does not seem to deliver the non plus ultra sound I savour every Day!
Bright guy himself.
I've got Levinson quality at dynaco budget. So said Audio Critic. It's a David Hafler
Lol
I have it on good authority that Dr Glen Zelniker contributed to the Palette design process.
👍👍👍
He sure knew what he wanted. And he never gave up many times that was not the right thing to do. I’m going to let you know that Mark was able to convince the federal government into allowing him to purchase two Bobcats and keep them in his New York City apartment with the big lie that he would take them into the New York City schools to teach children about wild animals. and What happened was both Cats died in his care within three months. That’s a little too driven for any person’s needs or supposed it needs.I know because I owned the pet supply store that he visited every day to ask my advice and we became friends until I realized how crazy he was and then I hid from him.
Perhaps he you kept giving him advice, those Bobcats would still be alive today?
I didn't know anything about Bobcats and I told Mark that from day one. I had a reputation in New York City as being the most holistic and humane pet supply store in NYC. Mark was a good researcher and had moved into the neighborhood. My advice to Mark was to give those cats to a zoo as soon as possible and in the meantime feed them raw meat diet. He just kept stopping into the store to say hello as he was walking through the neighborhood and we got into all types of different conversations. He was a very compelling and charismatic guy. If it wasn't for the Bobcats, I would've really enjoyed spending more time with him. But instead, I started to separate myself from him because of what he had done. When those cats guide, I felt devastated but with a person like Mark who doesn't want to listen to what someone wiser in the subject would say there is nothing that can be done. Perhaps that's why he's so famous and comes out with all kinds of new lines of outstanding audio equipment.
So much talent in Boston area
Loke!
Swedish term
Always fun to hear Americans use the Word for hifi😂😎
LAGOM :)
They were talking about the Schiit Loki.
www.schiit.com/products/loki
www.britannica.com/topic/Loki
3:38 - "So, uh"
Stories were abundant at CES from such as Red Rose/Audioprism and Vendetta Research. He screwed a lot of people in the US.
I will preface this comment by saying I can't afford to buy any Mark Levinson equipment. With that said,if I was able to purchase,I wouldn't because of the way he was screwed royally by his own company.
I think the only person documented screwing Mark Levinson was actress Kim Cattrall??
"...talk a little faster Mark". You wanna know why Mark talks like that?
Steve, wake this guy up. No, wait, wake me up. I can see (hear) why he was not a salesman but an installer. :)
How old are you?
I was dead serious.... and I am 50. Steve needs to know when he has a lifeless guest.
Steve,review this gear somethime please.2000w real old tube power.Other vids give a more quality and power look,but this just have the looks what a tube amp should be :-) th-cam.com/video/fRt8CoZT35k/w-d-xo.html Hope you dive into this and make a video on this amp(s)
th-cam.com/video/rbmJd8Cu85U/w-d-xo.html
Mark Levinson was married to Kim Cattrall when she was hot. She dumped him because he was insatiable in the hay. I've heard a lot of ML, Cello, Red Rose equipment, all okay, never anything astonishing.
And as someone else pointed out, they even wrote a sex manual together, THEN they broke up! I mean, you.can.not.make.this.up.!!!!!
When he went to Norway and Sweden he wantedto ravish Blondes with his pecker endlessly!
Terrific Steve Mark is under appreciated I think -I love his stuff with Daniel Hertz -I just love the dynamics and big speaker sound and aliveness that he has achieved -anyway i listened $250000 system and it actually sounded almost worth it compared to this flimsy garbage that just passes for a lot of the high end now
Sorry but "yawn" I just don't get excited over people who make audio gear.
I really couldn't give a rats about them to be honest.
I'm sure they don't care about you either.
No soup for you! Next!
@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt
Fuck em!!
Steve Guttenberg is definitely not my cup of tea!
Why?
Mark never paid John Curl for his engineering! Disgusting!