Abbey Road Studios

[misterdoggy]

I thought those of you who know that Abbey Road Studios which have B&W 800D's and 801D's and 802D's driven biamped by Classe Amps would be interested to know a little history about the Studios.

I had not realised that it had such a rich history. I thought it was something to do with the Beatles and was "their" studio or something, until the other day when I bought a recording of the famous pianist Lippati palying Grieg recorded at Abbey Road Studio's in 1949.

This stirred my interest and looked in to the history of Abbey road further to find so many great artists performing there since it was created by the Gramaphone Company in 1931.

From Star Wars to the Trilogy to Cliff Richard and The Beatles and Pink Floyd and so many more including greats like lipatti.

Here's a link if you would like to read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios

or go their website direct:

http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/

[Briz vegas]

Very interesting site Sir Doggy.

I notice that in the mastering tech specs they also list the Matrix 801 and Matrix 805. This would of course be referring to the pre-nautilus models rather than a special edition to commemorate the matrix trilogy.

"How long will my B&Ws last" could be answered here. One of the worlds top recording studios is using approx 10 year old 800 series B&Ws in an exacting commercial environment.

Looks like Abbey Road has less upgraditus that most punters on this site.

[misterdoggy]

Briz

They already have updated to 800's D series with Classe Cam 400's in January

Here's the article

http://www.bwspeakers.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/local.news/ObjectID/E2E27837-BF8E-4EA5-8BB92B1FFCB15967