Orchestra conductor to semiconductor
February 26, 2014
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Convinced that it can take on loudspeaker companies with higher profiles, one US manufacturer is raising its game – Richard Kontrimas and Radian Audio
The Statue of Liberty has long symbolised the American Dream for European immigrant sentering the US in order to re-start their lives. At the time of World War II, Germans, Italians, Irish and others came with ambitions aplenty but vir tually no worldly possessions. The Kontrimas family fled their native Lithuania in 1944 to escape the Soviet Union’s takeover of their homeland, sailing into New York in 1949 on an old…
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