Tonally neutral with excellent clarity, lifelike timbral qualities, and impressive bass performance, the Q Acoustics 5040 floor-standing loudspeakers accurately present music and audio content as it is.
I’ve worked as a molecular biologist in my entire professional career. As one of the inventors of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), I worked in human molecular genetics & developing molecular diagnostic and DNA forensic tests. In addition to my role as a scientist, I also worked as a Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt, leading scientific and engineering teams in biotech product development.
I’m also been an accredited motorsports photojournalist and track photographer for Sonoma Raceway. My photographic interests also include commercial, landscape, and street photography. In addition to writing for other audio publications, I’ve been an author on several scientific papers, as well as articles for motorsports publications.
I originally got into high-end audio in the late 70s, though my involvement waxed and waned over the years, as I also studied classical ballet for 10 years, and retired from that to take up motorcycle road racing. I got back into audio seriously in 2008 and put together a tube-based system with dynamic driver loudspeakers. My current listening is centered around jazz, classical, vocal artists, and some rock/popular musical content.
My sensibilities are more on the slightly warm and musical side of neutral, rather than the super-transparent, analytical, and highly resolving side. Some of the qualities I listen for in such a system are its ability to re-create the human voice and instrumental timbres and tone colors with verisimilitude, its ability to scale quickly and smoothly when reproducing instrumental and orchestral transitions and transients, dynamic range that has naturalness as well as power, and finely articulated harmonics. I’m much more interested in the actual musical or vocal performance of the artists I am listening to than analyzing or thinking about the next upgrade to my hardware.
What’s most important is ultimately, a beguiling and engaging musical experience.
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