Folks,
Following is a quote from
Jim Merod after hearing our
Revelation MR-1 MKII's at T.H.E. SHOW 2006. His biography follows below the quote. I think this lends a bit of credibility to our claim...
the new Reference for the new Millennium.
Thanks,
-Bob
"I despise speakers. I love microphones ... all microphones, because -- if you know what you're doing -- each microphone,
no matter what, is useful in a set of special applications.
"I count the number of speakers I've used, heard, and reviewed that earn my complete respect on one hand . . . less than five fingers.
"I've never heard a speaker that reproduces all the music --
all the ambient information I strive to capture in my recordings
-- until I heard SP TECH's 'Revelation MR-1' . . . I'll not relent until, with their shocking nakedness, they are locked into place as monitoring companions here at BluePort Sound."
-- JIM MEROD / BluePort Sound
Jim Merod's Bio:Jim has written about music, recording, audio gear, and the jazz scene for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union, Jazz News, the Jazz Link, Jazz Now, and other publications. He is currently a music reviewer for ENJOY THE MUSIC, an equipment reviewer for POSITIVE FEEDBACK and, until his resignation from Stereo Times in March '03, published his "A Pro's Point of View" column there for several years.
Over the course of three decades, Jim taught at Brown, Brandeis, Cornell, Stanford and UCLA. He was the founding dean of Cornell's Freshman Summer College and coordinated the Ivy League Writing Consortium. He has been a Fellow at Cornell, the University of California, and the University of Hawai'i. Author of a book on critical theory (Cornell Univ. Press) and another on "Jazz as a Cultural Archive" (Duke Univ. Press), Jim has lectured at Williams, Notre Dame, Reed, Marquette, Emory, University of Pittsburgh, and several campuses of the University of California. Jim is the recipient of the Harvard Book Award, the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, a National Science Foundation grant for elementary particle research, and was recognized at Brandeis for outstanding teaching.
Jim has worked with jazz education and educators throughout his career, assisting in the production of the "Club Date" jazz series for PBS-TV and with the "Adventures in Jazzland" Project in Marin County. He is collaborating with Benny Golson in the making of the legendary saxophonist-composer's autobiography and collaborating, as well, with composer/arranger/trombonist/screen writer Tom McIntosh in the creation of a film epic that explores jazz history. Jim's "Straight Ahead Jazz" radio show on KiFm in San Diego featured interviews with legendary musicians such as Marshal Royal, Snookie Young, Scott Hamilton, Joe Wilder, Bob Cooper, Pharoah Sanders, Frank Strazzeri, Monty Budwig and Andy Simpkins. He has been program director and board member of the Napa Valley Jazz Festival and is a consultant for numerous academic and professional organizations.
For more than twenty years, Jim has been an on-location recording engineer. In the early '90s he founded BluePort Sound recording studio and BluePort Jazz, a record label that has ten published albums. During his career Jim has recorded a "who's who" of legendary jazz, blues, and Latin musicians: Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, John Hicks, Sarah Vaughan, Clark Terry, Los Lobos, Joe Lovano, Eddie Palmieri, Jimmy Rowles, Lee Konitz, Hank Jones, Benny Golson, Kenny Barron, Charlie Haden, Nick Brignola, Tommy Flanagan, Stan Getz, Harold Land, Cecil Payne, Roger Kellaway, Mary Stallings, Dave McKenna, Tierney Sutton, Pete Jolly, Jackie Ryan, Jon Mayer, Joe Pass, Bob Florence, Gary Foster, Buddy Collette, Gatemouth Brown, Clifford Jordan, Barry Harris, Tom Harrell, Art Farmer, Conte Candoli, Mundell Lowe, Kenny Burrell, Gene Bertoncini, Larry Koonse, Laurindo Almeida, Joe Diorio, Ray Drummond, Jaime Valle, Cleanhead Vinson, Sweets Edison, Red Rodney, Louis Bellson, Bud Shank, Ruben Estrada, Alex Acuna, Leon Parker, Gerald Wiggins, Charles McPherson, Herb Geller, the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Orchestra, Ozomatli, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Tolu, and many more.
Jim received his undergraduate degree at Princeton and did his graduate work at Stanford, where he earned his doctorate in English & American Literature as well as the Special Program in Humanities. He recently completed a novel, "Einstein at Princeton."
