RMAF15: Legends of High-End Audio 

RIP ARNIE NUDELL. ur legendary vision will be followed.

I love this panel - Dan D looks like a mob hit-man, Arnie - rich as he was- looks like he was going through dumpsters, Richard Vandersteen looks like my butcher, Bob Stuart looks like he could be working for NASA, and Paul looks like he could never be anything but happy. Nice guys all. I think that this kind of “down to earth” attitude is one of the things that makes high end great. No 3-piece corporate suits here. Very relatable to those of us who so admire them. Rave on!

If Frank McIntosh and Gordon Gow were still around and on this panel, you'd have my entire HiFi experience sitting in one place... Really enjoyed this, love Paul and RIP to Arnie!

I have always lusted after Infinity speakers! So nice to see Mr. Arnie Nudel in this video and of course, you Mr. Paul.

Being an exceptional engineer and also an exceptional businessman is very rare so that is why there are only a few hi-fi legends.

my first system for PA was Altec A-7's with Crown DC 300A power amps, VFX-2 crossovers, ESS air motion transformers for highs and this for blues bands in Chicago early on. I was in first RIAA recording class in Chicago with Bruce Swedien as teacher, who was then with Universal Studios and he went on to work with Quincy Jones on Thriller. I had audiophile interests back then, never had the budget for it, but took what I knew into live sound, and that with a rowdy crowd. Quite a haul. Now I have had servo subwoofer (ported) from Yamaha along with IK Loud and/or Adam A7x monitors but my other electronics is more PA and recording gear, but high end is still beyond my budge, though I probably have 30k in gear. Enjoy what you have while you can, be blessed.

Arts education is so important throughout life as it helps us be creators not simply consumers. Great panelists! Arnie Nudell and Paul are right on the money in this video.

My parents always had music playing especially on the weekend, then I got the bug. Started reading Stereo Review and Audio magazines. When I started working at Macy's I would go to the electronics dept and look at the stereos. The manager hooked me up with a Pioneer Receiver, BSR turntable and kenwood speakers. That was my first stereo. As an adult I've helped friends, relatives. Introduced them to good sound, advised them on brands to look at.

This is simply awesome and inspiring!

Awesome. Krell and Infinity speakers. Sonic bliss...

I love these stories & the men telling them!

Arnie Nudell was-is the king of speakers.

Great video, thanks for sharing 💯👌🏼

A fabulous hour, thank you.

Excellent!

Another year, another RMAF. I've been watching all your videos, and trying to learn something from you, for many years and I thank you for sharing. Here goes a big thank you from Azores (Portugal), middle north Atlantic. Please, keep sharing.

only 3 reactions? really? This much talent in one room , truly amazing. Thank you very much for making this possible. from The Netherlands

Great video

Excellent topics 👍...interesting

Great video! It's all about the love and care to music....great respect.

I am not certain that music id more important now than when I grew up. The greatest teacher of the variety of music in the sixties was AM radio. There was no separation of music by marketing. We would hear everything on AM radio from Sinatra to the Beatles.

That story at 52min is Fing awsome

Why isn't Bob Carver on this panel?!?!?

Fascinating

Excellent

Meridian gear is incredibly innovative and amazing, but not as well known in the US. Bob Stuart deserves as much credit as anyone on the panel.

I really enjoyed this👍👍

My kids were used to hearing good sound from an early age. They all grew up taking music lessons 1 piano and 2 violin. I always had a decent music system. I had 3d acoustics 3d610b , then Dahlquist DQ20i. Always playing music at home in the car. The last few years I worked for Home Depot. And I would talk to younger kids who worked with me and ask them what do you listen to music on. Most of them it was bluetooth speakers. And I would send them to Magnolia at best buy, they were the only place that had a listening room. And most of them came back to me and said wow, I never realised music could sound that good. And then I directed them to used gear on Ebay to start them off on their journey into audio. It's very fulfilling to see these kids learn that there were better ways of listening to music, more fulfilling ways.

Listen to these old men talk hi fi :)

Did anyone else notice what Arnie Nudell said from 30:30 to 30:46? He stated that a Klipschorn had a 12" woofer but the 4/3 copy he built had a 15" woofer. Surely, everyone else on that panel as well as the moderator knew that every Klipschorn has a 15" woofer but nobody called him on it.

I would have loved to have hung out with these guys.

I cannot believe there's only 40 comments on this legendary recording truly all legends top-notch people industry makers and shakers and wallet Breakers...lol

Whoever wrote the description does not know who Richard Vandersteen is? Dan D'Agostino?

Music is considered a byproduct, something in the background...but it is getting better. We got two generations that have no idea on how music can sound. In 1999 I went to an audio show in Eindhoven Netherlands (VAD). Thought that a $2000+ cd player would kill any turntable...boy I was wrong!

It sometimes disappoints me when I raise the legendary names of guys and gals like this (and their imaginative products) that few friends know of whom I speak but I quickly recover,raise my banner and continue pushing the gospel of high end audio.

MQA, More Quack Audio?

I realise this video is old, however, I don't think it's a matter of telling 'young people' that Bluetooth is bad, and vinyl is good. I think convenience is an important factor for 'young people'. I love my hifi setup (I'm 26), but I have no problem with playing music via Bluetooth to my car's factory stereo because it's easy. If I'm just popping to the servo for a chocky milk, I just want to get in my car and for my phone to pair, and just play. I'm not looking for a superior audio experience in my car. Same goes for my little JBL Flip 3 Bluetooth speaker. It's good enough, and convenient enough, for when I'm having a few beers with my mates. It's not perfect, it distorts a bit at louder volumes, but it's fine. The convenience of being able to listen to what you want, when you want, is an import thing for 'young people', we're not always looking for an audiophile experience.

Most products designed and built today are superior to products from the 60’s and 70’s However when whoever decided that vinyl was obsolete and brick and mortar outlets selling 2 channel home audio weren’t necessary lotsa young people got screwed. Yes all the lovely tech conveniences we all enjoy are wonderful BUT 2 channel stereo is frocking awesome and I hope the people who were lost will be found.

David Hafler, Edgar Vilchur,Henry Kloss, Fisher, ie Fisher Hall!!!, (first hi fi all in one receiver) and several others pioneered the industry, these jokers are after thoughts....McGowan, "so for lunch I had some prunes, and some water, but wait, I digress," what a tool

Where’s Nelson Pass?, to be blunt, Michael Borresen shames all of them, he’s on a significantly higher level.

rip arnie

where is nelson pass

Call me old (67), But I can't hear any difference between a 256kbps MP3 and any other medium. It's a fact that the the quality of headphones (even cheap earbuds) has gone WAY up even in the past 10 years.

Arnie Nudell is a legend alone. If he hadn't begin designing loudspeakers we probably would not know hi fidelity existed. The emit r is by far the best tweeter in the world and nothing else has came close since then as well as the img woofers.

WHERE'S BOB CARVER?

Infinity became the largest speaker company in the world......... ...... Scilence...........

True legends, but missing Mr. Mark Levinson.

I disagree with the idea that reproduced music must sound like live music. Particularly today, with the vast amount of production that goes into, through and over the sounds that end up on a release. Music that sounds like how the producer/engineer intended, ok. But please - unless it’s orchestral music or a live album...

Don Rickles would maul these guys.

High end ripp off

Who else thinks that Stuart is the most boring person on the panel?

Arnie looks like the guy who used to be the comedian that played the drunk...that hat is really classless...oy vey

Mcgowan, what kind of water did you drink, what a TOOL!

If you invited paul to this then I have no respect for the video at all.

Hafler and Dyanco sold 500,000 units of one model amplifier, Legends, not these guys

All talk no actual practical loudspeaker eq amps and all that jazz just a load of yap, yap that I skipped though in less than 1 min.

These guys make AUDIO amplifiers and speakers...they didn't invent ie. the CD (changed EVERYTHING in home and pro audio), the DVD,(changed EVERYTHING in movie distribution) the Audio Cassette, LaserDisc, they didn't invent the B3 Electronic Organ, they made and sold products, they where already invented, developed, and decades ago, pretty well just another consumer home electronic device. Hero worship, for this level of nothing, is pretty sad, "legends"....oy vey.

Arnie was an audio stud. The rest are forgettable. Add a zero to the price types.

Retirement home, let the inmates out for some air?

D' Agastino has all failed company, what a goofball

The lying con artists, and the dummies they con. And they are paying for it.........

Great video

Excellent