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For my second stop during my HIFI stint in the UK, I decided to drop in on the fine folks at “The Professional Monitor Company,” which we all know as PMC.

Unlike my first stop at MJ Acoustics, which is truly an overachieving “Mom-and-Pop” operation with a grand total of 6 employees crafting killer subwoofers with panache, PMC has a slightly bigger footprint.

With a staff of roughly 55 employees spread over 3 locations, PMC is a decidedly larger enterprise with a more diverse portfolio of products that reach deep into the consumer, professional audio, and custom installation markets.

That being said, I soon discovered that despite its broader industry CV, PMC did not feel like the more corporate HIFI entity that I was envisioning. Surprisingly, it felt very much like MJ Acoustics did, a tight-knit family operation, albeit with a few dozen more “crazy uncles and aunts” thrown into the mix. You get the sense that PMC is staffed by a very down-to-earth but supremely focused team of people who create and execute world-class products with a minimum amount of fanfare and a maximum amount of respect.

I was lucky enough to have PMC Co-CEO, Tom Loader, give me an in-depth tour of PMC’s main office and R&D area at Holm Court in Bedfordshire and their manufacturing area in Luton. Before you ask, I was restricted with what I could film in the R&D area for obvious reasons, but it’s a safe bet to say that PMC has a lot of cool things in the works.

I hope you enjoy this little video of my visit.

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A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.

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