Hello everyone,
My name is Paul Gerbert (professional name). My real name is Pavel Sanaev. I’m a writer and film director from Russia who moved to Los Angeles about a year and a half ago.
About ten years ago, after directing several films in Russia, I became obsessed with the idea of making my next film in America. Very quickly, I realized that the most realistic way to achieve that goal was to finance the film myself. Since filmmaking itself could not realistically provide those resources, I started several different businesses outside the film industry.
One of them — built around my lifelong passion for music and audio systems — gradually evolved over more than ten years into a major high-end audio business.
I started with the restoration of vintage loudspeakers and building systems around carefully selected vintage components. Over time, I moved toward more advanced high-end brands, and within several years became a dealer for companies such as Blumenhofer Acoustics, Dan D'Agostino, dCS, Stenheim, Mastersound, EAR Yoshino and others. Later, our company became one of the leading high-end dealers in Russia, participated in many audio exhibitions, and received numerous awards at local high-end audio shows.
Then came the well-known events surrounding the war in Ukraine. Besides seriously affecting the business, those events also became a signal that it was finally time to move to the United States and pursue my original goal more directly.
I recently completed production of my first feature film in America and am currently deeply involved in post-production. In fact, the success of the high-end audio business made this film financially possible.
Here is the trailer, in case anyone would like to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxE74GzsNI
At the same time, the experience accumulated over more than a decade — system building, component matching, analog setup, vinyl calibration, speaker placement, system synergy and overall sound optimization — remains something I genuinely value and enjoy sharing.
I’m not here to sell anything. I simply enjoy staying connected to the world of music and audio that was a major part of my life for many years.
If anyone would like advice regarding:
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building a home audio system
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component synergy
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analog turntable setup
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speaker placement
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achieving better sound for a reasonable budget
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general high-end audio questions
Feel free to ask here. I’ll check this thread periodically and help whenever I can.
You can also see some of my past work and system portfolio here:
https://colossalsound.pro/portfolio/
One important note: I’m no longer an active dealer, which is why the website intentionally contains very little brand-focused information. It mainly serves as a portfolio of some of the systems and projects I worked on over the years.
