DESCRIPTION:
Moderator: Richard Schram, Parasound
Panelists: Siegfried Linkwitz, speaker designer, Linkwitz Labs; Cookie Marenco, producer/engineer, Blue Coast Records; Peter McGrath, recording engineer & Wilson Audio; Naotaka Tsunoda, headphone designer, Sony Electronics; and Jack Vad, San Francisco Symphony producer/engineer

Experts in one field of audio may not always understand the complexities of another audio expert's field. This panel provides an opportunity for professional recording engineers to ask consumer audio component designers questions they've always wanted to ask and vice versa. Should the parameters of consumer component design always correspond with what a professional audio engineer hears while recording? How does microphone placement affect the music coming from the speakers? This panel will begin a conversation that is sure to continue.

15 minutes for audience Q&A will follow the experts' questions.