... However, January 25th this year marks a completely new era in Esoteric's work on remasters. It was then that their own studio began to work. The press release of the day reads:
Tama, Tokyo Japan January 25, 2022. Esoteric company (head office: Tama, Tokyo, President & CEO: Hiroshi Oshima) announces that Esoteric has started to operate its own in-house mastering facility, the "Esoteric Mastering VCenter" to complete the mastering of SACD software sold by Esoteric. From the SACDs scheduled to be released in March 2022, Esoteric will start selling SACDs produced by the Esoteric Mastering System. ... Mr. Masaya Touno was appointed chief engineer, and Mr. Tetsuya Kato technical director for the new studio. The first of them is a young, by Japanese standards, sound engineer. Earlier, from 2006, he worked at the JVC Mastering Center, and from 2020 he was involved in remasters for Esoteric. He officially became their employee a year later. Mr. Kato has worked for the parent company TEAC since 1991, and since 2002 he has been Esoteric's chief engineer and head of its research department. He is responsible for the excellent SACD devices from the "K" and "Grandioso" series. ...
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