SOUND TRAVELS

Mark Reuton began his life in audio as an audiophile and huge music fan in Holland. His passion for music is given voice through his love of hi-fi, with the recorded performance over-riding audio. ‘It can be a rough sound, as long as it’s a great tune, I don’t mind,’ he says. A genial sort, Mark enjoys music ranging through blues to folk to soul to jazz, to classical and modern. ‘Where I lived in Holland there was a lot of soul, disco, hip-hop and reggae around,’ he says, and that all sparked his interest in music which grew in tandem with his interest in audio.

‘I used to daisy-chain all these speakers together, about 15–20 of them, and run them off a small cassette player that I was given for my birthday,’ he said. ‘Aged 14 or 15, I had