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What ever happened to Mark Levenson?

Think Mark is currently still pushing his newest endeavor, Daniel Hertz… when last I heard.Never read anything in the industry about Mark Levenson’s current proprietary line. Mark is a controversial figure in Audio but still an undisputed legend. His interesting and rather amazing multi page bio is on DanielHertz dot com. Did you know that Mark’s great uncle was Heinrich Hertz?
In 2014, I helped him with his room at the Vegas T.H.E. Show.
The complete top line Daniel Hertz full system is about $300K but it is about the best sound I have ever heard. Big, musical, real.
The DH front end is a Mac using Master Class soft wear directly to his DAC. First time I heard great digital.
Whenever Mark is not selling DH to Russian oligarchs, he spends his time between his home in Switzerland and boat in Venice with his Russian model wife and his 11 year old son… when last I heard.
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mijostyn
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Others he did not pay!
hickamore
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Obscure petty criminals named Mark LevEnson aside, there is only one Mark Levinson in audio, and Daniel Hertz SA, based in Neuchatel, is his latest enterprise. (He is also working to upgrade mass-marketer LG's audio. Seems an odd project for him, but then geniuses are always odd).  ML always undertakes something new after pushing his former infatuation to its limit.

Paupers like me have only ever heard ML gear in showrooms. Well, I did have a psychiatrist friend who owned it, but his social guests were never interested in serious listening. Frankly I always suspected he owned ML gear only because he could afford it and the top local dealer had told him it was the best. Like non-cooks whose fancy kitchens are decked out with SubZero fridges, Wolf ranges, and other stuff whose functions they don't know and whose names they can't pronounce.
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badger_erich
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Didn't know he was married to Kim Cattrell for 6 years. Interesting history of the man..myth and legend.
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internet conflation at its best, right here ... 😆
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Mark Levinson designed nothing! He just financed the business and used his name for marketing! Tom Colangelo (now deceased) designed the first generation electronics (ML1, ML2, ML3). The JC-1 mc head amp and JC-2 preamp were earlier designs from John Curl. 
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