Linear Tube Audio Artists
Read what top musicians and audio engineers think of LTA amplifiers and why they choose them to enhance their work and connection with music.
Jim Anderson
Jim Anderson has been a leading figure in acoustic audio engineering, recording, and production for near 50 years. His work has won thirteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and received two Emmy nominations. He has worked with a diverse range of artists, including McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, John Zorn and hundreds of others. In 2003, he help found the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU, where he is now Professor Emeritus, and became the President of the Audio Engineering Society in 2008. Anderson is recognized as an industry leader in the immersive audio field, and his recordings are highly acclaimed, regularly featuring at the Grammy Awards and on Critics’ Annual ‘Best of’ lists. Jim’s latest recording with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and featured Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, “Skyline,' won the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2022. Jim lives in NYC and co-owns Anderson House Audio New York with his wife, Ulrike Schwarz.
Michael Beinhorn
Michael Beinhorn is a legendary record producer, composer, author, and musician. Michael has worked with some of the biggest names in music, producing chart-topping albums for artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Hole, and many more.
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Tony Cousins
Tony Cousins is a revered name in the world of audio mastering. With an impressive career spanning over four decades, Tony has collaborated with some of the most iconic artists in the industry, such as Adele, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, and Massive Attack, to name a few.
Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell is a Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger. He has recorded albums for labels such as ECM, Decca, and Blue Note. Among many other awards, he was selected as Guitarist of the Year in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll for seven years in a row.
“When I was a little kid I got my own transistor radio. I loved it. Went with me everywhere. Slept with it under my pillow at night. Wow. The joy and thrill of hearing new music for the very first time. Being transported into another world. Mind blown. That is the place where I want to be. I long for it. Listening now to Audeze LCD5 headphones through a Linear Tube Audio MZ3 amplifier brings me right back to those wonderful moments. Mind blown. I’m so lucky. Thankful. ”
Jonathan Goldberger
Guitarist Jonathan Goldberger's diverse musical background encompasses composing for independent films, collaborating with contemporary jazz and rock artists, and leading his own projects. He has been featured on stage and in the studio with artists such as Red Baraat, Jim Black, John Zorn, and Joe Russo. Goldberger also composed memorable scores for films such as Trans and The Hawk is Dying. His 2018 album Visitors, a collaboration with JP Schlegelmilch and Jim Black, was named one of Rolling Stone's 20 Best Jazz Albums of the year. Goldberger's latest project, the jazz-fusion quartet Selcouth Quartet, released their debut record in fall of 2023.
Bob Ludwig
Bob Ludwig is a 12x Grammy award-winning mastering engineer and the owner of Gateway Mastering Studios. Since Bob works behind the scenes, some people may not know him by name, but almost anyone will know him from his work with the likes of people who are recognized by just one name: Jimi, Bruce, Frank, Elton, Madonna, Sting - among many others.
Julian Lage
Julian Lage burst on the scene in 2000 when he performed at the Grammy Awards at the age of 12. Since then, he’s backed up that performance by releasing three Grammy-nominated albums. Julian is married to the multi-talented singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy.
“The MZ3 combines power and richness in a way that is so deeply musical and pleasurable. Listening to music through the MZ3 makes me feel like all of the acoustic and sonic information available is being focused like a beam of light, stripping away anything that might color or impede the purest signal. The MZ3 makes it feel as though I’ve been ushered into the center of the music and the musicians making it. It is utterly sublime! A dream!”
Anthony Pirog
Anthony Pirog is a jazz, experimental, and rock guitarist, composer, and pedal effects magician. Pirog's versatility finds him performing as a solo musician, in a duo with cellist Janel Lepin, and as a leader of his own trio and sextet, among many other configurations. He is known for his work in the band The Messthetics, a freewheeling power trio with bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty, both from Fugazi, who announced a new album to be released in March 2024. Anthony's latest solo project, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1, is an album of duets with fellow guitarists, including Andy Summers (The Police), John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Nels Cline (Wilco).
Ulrike Schwarz
Ulrike Schwarz is a highly acclaimed engineer, producer, and audio innovator with over three decades of experience in the film, television, radio, and recording industries. Hailing from Germany, Schwarz spent over a decade as the senior sound engineer for large orchestral and jazz productions at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, earning numerous prestigious awards. She has received multiple Grammy nominations for her work with a diverse range of artists, such as Patricia Barber, Jane Ira Bloom and conductor Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ulrike’s Grammy nominated recordings include Jane Ira Bloom’s “Picturing the Invisible - focus 1,” “Symphonic Dances” by composer Gisle Kverndokk and performed by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and “Clique” by Patricia Barber. Ulrike currently lives in NYC and co-owns Anderson Audio New York with her husband, Jim Anderson.