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A very nice remembrance by Kal. I was too young to be aware of the Peter's earlier accomplishments, but the first of them I knew of was the ADC XLM. Harry Pearson gave it a rave review in a very early issue of The Absolute Sound. He used it as his reference for many years as did all my friends and I. It was very affordable and had a replaceable stylus (as did all cartridges in those days).
When Peter sold ADC and formed Sonus, he only had a few models but they also soon became the de facto reference for just about everybody. This success was not so long lived as the XLM. First came the MicroAcoustics electret capacitor model, and then the final nail in the coffin -- the invasion of Japanese moving coils. I was a bit surprised when the Italian loudspeaker company appropriated the name of Peter's old company, but it's all too easy to forget the distance of thousands of miles, another language, and a couple of decades.
Thanks for the memories, Kal. And thanks for the beautiful music, Mr. Peter Pritchard.