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Company Background & History
M&K In The Professional Sound World
Here’s a trivia question. Who were M&K’s first
customers? None other than Walter Becker and
Donald Fagen of
Steely Dan
, who asked Ken
Kreisel in 1973 to design a monitoring system for
the
Pretzel Logic
mixdown sessions.
Shortly thereafter, M&K's first Satellite-
Subwoofer system was designed (and used by a
number of prominent recording engineers) as a
portable reference recording monitor system. For
nearly 25 years, sound professionals have been
using M&K in both their studio and home systems.
In the early ‘90s, pro use of M&K speakers really
heated up, led by Dolby Labs. During the devel-
opment of the Dolby Digital (AC-3) discrete 5.1
channel system, several of Dolby's key technical
people heard M&K's 5000THX system at
Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch, during the HDTV
Grand Alliance listening tests.
This led to Dolby acquiring a 5000 system, which
they used as their reference speaker for the de-
velopment of AC-3. Dolby’s San Francisco labs
A Partial Listing of M&K Professional Users
Fotomag NY
HD VISION HDTV production studio
JAK Productions (George Lucas)
Kalimba Studios (Maurice White of
Earth, Wind & Fire)
Steve Kempster
Laser Pacific
Pat Leonard
LucasArts Entertainment
Magnolia Studios
Masterphonics/Tracking Room
Media 100
Media Ventures
Monterey Post
Motorola DSP Digital Audio Labs
Southern California
Motorola DSP Digital Audio Labs
Hong Kong
NARAS (Grammy awards people)
Ocean Entertainment
Keith Olsen's Goodnight LA
and Goodnight Dallas
Recording Studios
Pioneer Video Manufacturing
20th Century Fox
4Media Company (4MC)
Chuck Ainley
Columbia Pictures
Bakery Studio
Brian Wilson
Broadway Video NY
Buena Vista Sound/
Walt Disney Pictures
California Video Center
Chace Productions
Chicago Audio Works
Cinram/Pacific Ocean Post
DVD Center
Dolby Laboratories Los Angeles
Dolby Laboratories New York
Dolby Laboratories San Francisco
DTS (Digital Theater Systems)
Enterprise Recording Studio
FCC Advanced Television
Standards Committee (HDTV)
Fireside Productions
FotoKem
Pacific Ocean Post Audio
(Part of the 4MC Group)
Post Audio
Trevor Rabin
River Studios NY
David Rodriguez
Saylor Sound
Seventeen Grand Recording
Skywalker Sound
Sonic Jungle
Sony Pictures High-Definition
TV Laboratory
Sony Music NY
Sony Music Santa Monica
The Tape House NY
Terra Nova Recording Co.
THX Division, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
University of Southern California
Film Department
Paul Vitello Productions
Village Recorders
Visual Music & Sound
Warner Bros. Studios