Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Mark Levinson ML-3
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Dear all,
Mark Levinson is the most famous wellknown highend audiobrand. When most of the mainstream audiomanufacturers wre producing big audireceivers with countless knobs on them, this company introduced in the seventies a completely different approach, minimalistic black with only the switches that were really needed and topnotch parts from all over the world like torodial transformers fron England, Swiss camac connectors as used with CERN in Geneva and medical appliances. These designs like the highpowered stereo poweramplifier the ML-3 were widely acknowledged as the benchmark for later designs because it was the archetype for highpower higend audiodesign. Several magazines raved about this amp: America magazins: The Absolute Sound in 1979, Issue 16: "State of the Art, takes the complete power of a hydro-electric plant"
Stereo Review June 1984, Volume 49 No.6 by Julian Hirsch: "Gold plated-sound from Mark Levinson ML-3 amp, Twenty-five years in the electronics engineering world has given me some appreciation of the distance between consumer products and top quality laboratory equipment. The Mark Levinson ML-3 power amplifier is the only consumer product I've seen that bridges that gap".
German (one of three) magazine Stereo 7 july 2004 placed a complete classic commemerative item for the ML-3 called 'Big Mark' at page 50, 51 and 52.
American Style, a summoning of great American classic products by Richard Sexton, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1987 mentiones at page 116 the Mark Levinson ML-2 very similar product in sculpture. "This minimalist machine with black anodized, brushed aluminum case is adorned only by an on-off switceh and gracfull cooling vents on the sides."
Jim Saxon a famous audi-reviewer, wrote an article: "Park Avenue High Fidelity" in 1998 with the Mark Levinson ML-3 in a keyrole: http://www.soundstage.com/paradise/paradise199801.htm
I rest my case.
MLAS TC (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
