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ken kreisel timeline
There is only one Ken Kreisel. A man of vision and innovation, who has had a profound influence on home theatre and its sound formats over the decades, consistently pushing the boundaries and producing monitoring equipment used in top studios worldwide including Disney, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, LucasArts, Skywalker Sound, Sony, Warner Brothers and THX.
There are a few timelines in existence in relation to the Kreisel name, but only one is genuine. If there's no photos of Ken, nor any mention of Ken, it'll be a manipulated version to conceal the true facts. We have recreated the correct one here for you in order to inform you of the true achievements of the one and only, Ken Kreisel.
Everything else is just imitation.
You can also view this timeline on Ken's own website here.
1978
1978 marks the consumer release of the Satellite-Volkswoofer System, which Ken Kreisel originally designed for his own use at the M&K Real Time Direct-To-Disc recording studio.
The Satellite-1 speaker incorporates much of the technology Ken still uses today, such as phase focused crossovers, group delay time alignment, and controlled vertical directivity
1978
At this point, Ken Kreisel was already building professional screening rooms for directors, producers, and the Hollywood elite - long before the phrase "home theatre" was being used. This meant that long before room EQ was even thought of, Ken Kreisel was addressing the issues faced with building dedicated home theatre systems, putting him in a unique position...
1982
Ken Kreisel's M&K RealTime Records becomes the first label to release Compact Discs in the U.S.
The first releases featured Ken Kreisel's digital recordings of The Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra, recorded in Germany
Rick McCallum, Producer of Star Wars Episodes I, II, and III:
"We selected Miller & Kreisel speakers to create Star Wars Episode I soundtrack and they proved to be the most accurate and best sounding monitors we have ever used."
1998
2006
in March of 2006, Chris Boyes receives an Oscar for Achievement In Sound for Peter Jackson's epic, King Kong
(Best Sound Mix and Best Editing)
2006
"Sound Wars" interview is published in HDTV Etc magazine, in which Ken talks about his Miller & Kreisel THX loudspeakers at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch
click the photo for full interview
In 2012, Ken Kreisel introduces his most accurate and powerful subwoofers yet. A single MX700 Mk3 or MX5000 Mk3 subwoofer - also known as the DXD 808 and DXD12012 respectively - sets new standards for home theatres and studio mastering suites across the globe.
But the subwoofer world of Ken Kreisel isn't a stranger to the audible benefits of "stacking" subwoofers, so the DXD808 and DX12012 are designed in such a way to take full advantage of not only the stacking technique, but also Ken's push-pull technology, producing the ultimate, modular, scaleable subwoofer system suitable for any room.
2012
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