Alex Greenspan
Alex Greenspan is a veteran technologist of the optical disc manufacturing industry who helped pioneer some of the earliest CD-stamper equipment by adapting the electroplating process used in vinyl record manufacturing, a market that all but disappeared by the late 1980s. With the current growing popularity of vinyl as a specialty audio medium, much of […]
Güenter Loibl
Born and raised in Tulln, a small town near Vienna, Austria, Guenter Loibl is the CEO of Rebeat and founder of HD Vinyl. Loibl founded Rebeat back in 2001. Originally, Rebeat was a distributor for CDs and DVDs in Germany and Austria. In 2006, Guenter started Rebeat Digital, a digital music distributor with a focus […]
Michael Fremer
Michael Fremer is the Editor of analogplanet.com, a Sr. Contributing Editor at Stereophile Magazine and Contributing Editor at Sound&Vision magazine. He’s also contributed to The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Consumer Digest, and The Bergen Record (New Jersey), among other publications and periodicals. Fremer has also appeared on the oft-run ‘History of Audio’ […]
Bob Irwin
In 1989, Bob Irwin packed a tape machine into his road-weary VW and drove nineteen straight hours to Nashville. He had an idea. The result was “Presenting The Fabulous Knickerbockers,” the debut release on his new Sundazed imprint. The title immediately generated a positive buzz among collectors, then percolated into the mainstream press. Buoyed by initial success, […]
Nina Palmer
Nina grew up in the vinyl industry. Living in New Jersey, dinner table conversations centered on swing arms and cake cups, demonstrated by silverware and dishes. She went to college for as long as possible. Graduated with several degrees; German lit, library science. Found out they were not too practical and started working for her […]
Larry Jaffee
Larry Jaffee bought his first record as a 14-year-old (the Rolling Stones’ Hot Rocks), the start of a lifelong obsession. Based in New York, Jaffee first wrote about the music industry professionally while he was still in college. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Record Collector, Wax Poetics, Wire, […]
