Yes, Mike Kay was one of those special people in the industry too. If it weren't for him, Mark Levinson and Arnie Nudell wouldn't have got off the starting blocks.
Having worked for over a decade for Mike Kay I must say that Mike was extremely generous to many in the audio Industry including Arnie and Mark. We were the largest High End dealer for Infinity and at one time were exclusive for the IRS and also for Mark Levinson.
Lyric had a lot of things going for it. It was in the largest market and Mike ran a business that made money. Most audio stores then were just getting their feet wet with High End while Lyric was the temple of the high end and everyone from around the world came there to see and hear the products that were being represented and actually stocked. Lyric was offered everything first and Mike always tried to help new companies. The list is endless and his place in my opinion in the pantheon of the HE is very unknown and understated.
Arnie, Harry P and Mike Kay were my mentors and I was privileged to get to hang and drink with them as well as learn a ton about listening and music. My fondest memories come from that time .I always will remember going to Carnegie Hall at Christmas time to hear Beethoven's 9 with the LA Philharmonic with full chorus directed by Gullini with the 3 wise men of Audio . The dinners were legendary and for a kid from LI who never before had caviar or great wine they became memories that have lasted my entire life.
RIP to Arnie, Harry and to my second father Mike Kay
Peace.
Thanks, Phil. There are quite a few of the large Genesis and Infinity speakers in the Philippines. I do hope to make another visit one day.
Wow. They are still working on it? Here's a photo of the Genesis 3 with Gary setting them up at Alexis Park at CES 2006. We had to use two pairs of Gary's new monoblock tube amps (no longer available) in parallel to run them because the impedance was so low, they shorted out all of Gary's solid state amps. Gary designed the cabinet. The curvature is modeled after Claudia Schiffer's *ahem* booty. Everybody - men and women both - could not resist petting them and speculated they were modeled on J-Lo but Gary thinks Claudia has a nicer booty.
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