MBL CHIEF ENGINEER JÜRGEN REIS
JÜRGEN REIS, 59, whom John Atkinson respectfully describes as “an engineer’s engineer,” joined MBL in 1982, when the company was three years old. After improving the original MBL preamp, he designed MBL’s first three-way speaker system, the MBL 101, in 1986.
As Reis’s work continued, he found time to sing baritone/bass in the award-winning Hanover Choir, play guitar in a rock band, and serve as a recording engineer. With time for only one serious recording project per year, he currently records the superb ensemble Concerto Köln for Berlin Classics. For fun, he also records local orchestras, including “Orchester im Treppenhaus” (Orchestra in the Staircase).
“Listening to real instruments while you set up the microphones is a totally different story than listening at a mixing
