Today I'll be joined by Mark Fouxman of Samar Audio Design. An innovator, highly skilled concert pianist (including prestigious music festivals across Europe), professor of piano, and leading voice in the field of microphone design, Dr. Mark Fouxman not only achieves precision and technical ingenuity in the field of audio capture, but highlights its beauty as well.

Samar Audio Design is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Mark's designs are hand-built in the USA with an emphasis on artisinal craftsmanship, guided by cutting edge engineering. Every aspect of production is done in house, including the machining, assembling, even winding their own toroidal and bobbin transformers. Aiming not to mimic classic designs but instead venturing to create unique enduring classics of their own, Samar's focus is on pushing the envelope of great sound capture from a wisdom earned by years of Mark's research on the finest details of microphone design. Today Mark will be discussing his journey designing his own audio equipment growing up in the Soviet Union, being a concert level pianist, the importance of the physical aspects of his designs, and the importance of off-axis response in microphones.