Can't wait!!
Quick James Guthrie story: I was contemplating buying ATC speakers (some great used SCM150ASl's on A-gon several years ago) so I called the UK corp HQ and, lo and behold got Billy Woodman (founder, CEO) on the phone. We spoke for several minutes about my issues (mostly technical about setting up active speakers with my cabling, etc) and when the discussion turned to his great customer list I mentioned that I had spoken to local engineer hero Michael Bishop (multi-Grammy-winning ex-Telarc surround god) about Telarc's use, and that Michael offered a personal tour for me!!
Well, Billy immediately started laughing and said this was my lucky day cuz he just noticed that James Guthrie was walking the halls there (I mentioned Guthrie a few times in our talk). He caught him and had him kinda shout into the phone from a few feet away "hello Ted, buy the damn speakers".
It was so cool! Anyway, I did buy the damn speakers, and loved them for awhile..but the 150's are ginormous and even in my room overpowered it. I'd have easily had a 5.1 of ATC SCM100ASL's or 50ASl's if the price were right, but the 150's were too good to turn down at the time. Oh, and the sale of them to a music lover in Wash DC area was helped tremendously by my Michael Bishop tour and connection. He mentioned they were doing a remote recording in the DC area and offered to bring them along, and to use some of his ATC travel cases to protect them. He and a fellow Telarc guy came over to the house, heard my system, gave it his full approval (with one caveat that I trap the front sloping ceiling slightly, which I did...and have subsequently done significant work with) and left with the speakers. All in all, the whole thing was so accidental yet so cool!!
Anyway.....my only Guthrie story. I'm so looking forward to this demo.
