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Company Background & History
and listening rooms have used M&K since then,
and the 150 system has become a fixture in Dolby's
Los Angeles and New York reference rooms, cur-
rently being used to present 5.1 channel music
recordings to the music industry!
M&K speakers were also used for all of the in-
dustry demonstrations of AC-3 prior to the intro-
duction of actual processors by individual manu-
facturers. The FCC's Advanced Television Stan-
dards Committee (High Definition TV) uses M&K
in their laboratory and in a system that they use in
overseas presentations to demonstrate the supe-
riority of the American HD standard to countries
that have not yet selected an HDTV standard.
And Dolby is not the only multichannel advocate
using M&K. M&K subwoofers are the standard for
many of the artists producing DTS music record-
ings, and DTS has multiple M&K systems. In fact,
if there's one thing that Dolby, DTS, and THX can
agree upon, it is that they all use M&K speakers!
The Hollywood postproduction community has
embraced the M&K system as the 5.1 channel
standard. As more professionals have an oppor-
tunity to hear it, the number of studios installing it
increases. See the above list for a few of the us-
ers of M&K's MPS professional speaker system.
Well over 100 professional recording and master-
ing studio rooms in the music, film, and video fields
are using M&K systems as their reference.
Pro audio’s EQ magazine reviewed the MPS sys-
tem, and the reviewer loved it, concluding “For a
professional surround sound system, I think the
M&K MPS-150THX is the one to beat.”
Dan Shimiael, Technical Manager of The Enter-
prise studio (which has several M&K systems),
said “The MPS-5000 SUB is clearly the best
subwoofer made...Dolby is using the same sys-
tem as we are using, and they pretty much ac-
cepted it as the reference system for their surround
system.”
And composer Trevor Rabin, using M&K for the
score of the blockbuster
Armageddon
, says "the
bottom line is M&K's MPS line of 5.1 monitors and
powered subwoofers are the best speakers I've
ever heard."
M&K History
Founded in 1974, M&K Sound is the only manu-
facturer with nearly a quarter-century of experi-
ence in designing and manufacturing subwoofers
and other high-end loudspeakers,
as well as
twenty-five years of audiophile-label recording ex-
perience.
The vision of company founders Ken Kreisel, Dr.
Lester Field, and D. Jonas Miller is realized in
today’s extensive line of innovative speaker prod-
ucts. As chief speaker designer and recording en-
gineer, President Ken Kreisel works at the leading
edge of technology, bringing 25+ years of inter-
est and experience in advancing the state-of-
the-art in both the recording and reproduction
of music and film sound.
Anticipating home theatre by more than a de-
cade, M&K is recognized as the pioneer in the
design concept of Powered Subwoofers and Sat-
ellite speakers, which is utilized by virtually every
speaker manufacturer in their own Home Theatre
systems.
Ongoing research continues to provide signifi-
cant improvements to the M&K line, with innova-
tions such as the Phase-Focused crossover, Head-
room Maximizer circuit, and Push-Pull Dual Driver
subwoofers.
In 1974, the brand-new company combined
Kreisel’s live recording and loudspeaker design ex-
perience with the research and acoustics back-
ground of Dr. Field, who retired as Chief Scientist
and vice president of research at Hughes Aircraft
Company, after being a full professor at both
Caltech and Stanford Universities and prior work
at Bell Telephone Research Laboratories after ob-
taining his Ph.D. at Stanford.
By combining Kreisel’s creativity, remarkable
hearing acuity and experience in live sound re-
cording with Dr. Field’s scientific methodology and
experience, M&K's foundation was set. They be-
gan their extensive research into reproduced
sound and its perception (psychoacoustics), which
Ken continues to this day.
Today’s research utilizes the most sophisticated
computerized sound measurement and evaluation
equipment, including MLSSA systems and B&K’s
$35,000 Model 2012 analyzer.