I don't think that Winston Ma (owner of FIM) has read your very complimentary posts about his most recent CD's. I will share them with him.
This is my first post on AS. I want to share the latest FIM release. I have been working with Winston for about 18 months. He asked me to write a book about the golden era of Decca (British) records and their artists, producers and engineers. Accompanying the book would be 4 CD's which contain some of the finest of the great Decca recordings of that era (1958-1980), remastered by the multi-Grammy award winning engineers Michael Bishop and Robert Friedrich of Five/Four Productions. The two volume book was released earlier this month and made its debut at the Hong Kong Audio Show last week. It got a very favorable reception, with the first run of books and CD's almost completely sold out. The big three dealers in the US (Elusive Disc, Acoustic Sounds, and Music Direct) are all carrying the book/CD's at a prepublication 10% discount, with Elusive Disc now having a few copies available.
I had a lot of fun writing the book, which draws extensively from a series of interviews I did with retired Decca engineers and other staff in London last summer. I got to see them again this summer and gave them copies of the test CD's and showed them the proofs of the book that I had on my computer.
I have the set of test CD's and both Winston and I are very happy with the sound, the best that I have ever heard from FIM (I have all of the FIM releases), which, I think, is saying a lot.
This weekend, Winston's friend, Gary Koh, of Genesis Advanced Technologies, is spinning some of the CD's from the book in his room at the Calfornia Audio Show. He also has a copy of the book. I think there is a dealer there who may have a few copies of the book also.
I am attaching a picture and description of the book.
Larry Toy
Larry Toy