Mark Döhmann (Founder at Dohmann Audio) Interview

StereoNET Reviewer, Mark Gusew caught up with Mark Döhmann (Founder at Dohmann Audio), at the 2023 StereoNET Melbourne Hi-Fi & AV Show.
Dohmann talks about his background and the formative years of his lifelong dedication to analog audio, turntable design, and manufacturing.
🎤 Host: Mark Gusew
🎤 Guest: Mark Döhmann
🎥 Camera: Marc Rushton
🎬 Editor: Clemente Meulio
🎥 Rig: Rigid.PRO (www.rigid.pro)
Visit Dohmann Audio 👉 dohmannaudio.com/
Special thanks to Australian distributor, Nirvana Sound for facilitating the interview and their ongoing support 👉 nirvanasound.com/
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[@robertmitchell6015]

Great interview I would love one of these Turntables and their Clamps

[@phatjbl]

Mark is one of the smartest most humble people in the audio industry. I spent half my time at the Sydney hifi show in audio ecstacy with the Nirvana Sound dream system. One million dollars this system cost. Mark is a genius story teller who has also a formidable knowledge of hifi in general. The only question he could not answer was ...what are this week's lotto numbers? Lol. This incredible system is that good that after spending 3 hours on an otherwise other train journey due to delays ...my adhd kicking hard.. 3 songs from Dire Straits on the Dohmann Helix one centred my universe ...its that bloody good. Besides the incredible turntable made in Melbourne Duntech and Halcro products featured here. Also Ypsilons mind blowing phono stage and a Cessaro preamp and some very serious cables were delivering the goods. This is hifi at the highest level. Clarity Space Dynamics Soundstage and depth in spades. At a Dohmann masteclass years ago he stated music should explode out of the grooves.....here indeed it did. Buy anything Mark Dohmann sells with absolute confidence. It's the people behind these products that really enhance their value. Great interview.

[@stephenchen1420]

Interesting that the Thorens New Reference also uses a similar technology to Minus-K from Seismon in Germany for isolation.

[@stephenchen1420]

I have mentioned to Mark that for the same money, I prefer his Helix One to the Linn Sondek LP-12 50 (I was at the launce of the latter & talked to Gilad Tiefenbrun of Linn). No surprise Linn hired Sir Jony Ive (formerly of Apple) on the design, as both brands are intended to work within their own ecosystems!

[@stephenchen1420]

I'm a little picky here, at 6:17 Mark D mentions the Ariston RD-11S with a SME IV - I don't think this existed at the time, it came after the introduction of the SME V in 1986.

[@stephenchen1420]

It was likely it was a SME III