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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:

  • building a home audio system

  • component synergy

  • analog turntable setup

  • speaker placement

  • achieving better sound for a reasonable budget

  • 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.

 

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parkergetdean
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I haven't read all of it but it seems you are missing one aspect: your experience is unique because you didn't have the abundance of funds and equipment (10s of 1000s of dollars) that most people on this forum do. You didn't restore vintage gear because you felt like it, you did it because that's all that you could put your hands on.

You can make something out of nothing (if you still remember it cheeky)

 

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colossalsound OP
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My friend, that’s all the point - you didn’t read. Not only I had abundance, I think I had what most people on this forem have multiple 20. Simply because I’ve been a professional dealer for more than 10 years. At some poimt you’re completely right -when I first recorded that Denon it was "something out of nothing". But I re-listened that record today, after I put my hands on all the best stuff you can name in high end world and that record still works even against very strong competitors. That was a surprise and that is why I wrote the article ablut 301.   

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pindac
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Sharing experiences is the human trait that keeps the human being in existence. From developing sign language and verbal language to cave paintings, leading onto other content produced in written records, and formal education are the fundamentals of longevity for the Human Being.

The secondary human trait that keeps the human being in existence is to be innovative. Creating Tools, Shelter, Managing/Controlling Nature have enabled the Human Being to plan for their future and future generations.

A desire to create communication and a record, as seen offered by Pavel who is very much Human, is unavoidable, if the above is accepted as being the human trait.

Pavel is a new forum member, and is doing no different to other content from other members, especially from certain members’ creations seen during this forum’s existence. Certain of these members are no longer participants on this forum.

" The King is Dead; Long live the King "

I look forward to the fresh content from an individual who has been exposed to an extensive range of permutations for audio equipment. I sense strongly both myself and Pavel have shared in similar experiences encountered as part of being audio enthusiasts on a journey of enjoying recorded music and the new discoveries that are to be made.

Is not a forum a public place where a proportion of the populace gather to receive relevant information from those who qualify to broadcast the content, to be subsequently met by the reaction of the attending populace.

Choosing to not hear something is quite easy; don’t be present to hear it. Choosing to not read a content is quite easy; don’t use the prompts that enable the content to be read. 

Modern web-based forums are globally accessed. Where a proportion of forum members are non-posting participants but seekers of information, in addition to this, there are the non-forum members who are regularly visiting the forum and investigating the content being added.

Anyone who posts on a forum should be very conscious of their writing and exactly who they are writing their content for. A response to a post is not the ubiquitous mindset from all who read it. There are others who totally appreciate what has been offered. This has been proven to me on occasions, hence leaving confidence that even larger numbers of content reviewers have appreciated what they have read.   

In my own forum communications, I happily inform another to scroll on by when there is a loss of harmony obviously occurring. This is not my thread; I’m merely a poster expressing support and encouraging the furthering of the thread’s content. It is not my place to offer this as a suggestion to a poster not in acceptance of the OP’s intentions and content offered.      

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