Draft:Andrzej Lipiński (sound engineer)

He began piano lessons at the age of six, then attended the State Primary Music School in Łódź. He graduated from the prestigious Mikołaj Kopernik High School No. 1 in Łódź in 1966,{{Cite book |last=Skorek |first=Henryk Władysław |title=Nasz wiek. Gimnazjum i Liceum imienia Mikołaja Kopernika w Łodzi 1906–2006. Zarys historyczny. Wspomnienia. |publisher=I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Łodzi i Stowarzyszenie Wychowanków Gimnazjum i Liceum im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Łodzi |year=2006 |isbn=83-908655-0-5 |location=pl |publication-date=2006 |pages=505 |language= |trans-title=Our century. Mikołaj Kopernik middle and high school in Łódź 1906-2006. Historical outline. Memories.}} while also attending the State Secondary Music School, where he studied clarinet and music theory, graduating in 1969. In 1976 he graduated with honors from the Department of Music Production and Sound Recording at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.{{Cite web |title=WYWIAD: Aktywne zestawy Lipinski Sound - Porównanie koncepcji |url=https://www.infosound.pl/wywiad/45277,wywiad-andrzej-lipinski |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=INFOSOUND.PL |language=pl}}{{Cite web |title=Andrzej Lipiński: z natury jestem perfekcjonistą |url=https://trojka.polskieradio.pl/artykul/2162929,andrzej-lipinski-z-natury-jestem-perfekcjonista |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=trojka.polskieradio.pl |language=pl}} He later received a doctorate with distinction from the same academy,{{Cite book |title=Wydział Reżyserii Dźwięku: informator = Department of Sound Engineering: prospectus |date=2004 |publisher=Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina |isbn=978-83-89444-27-1 |pages=23 |language=pl |trans-title=Department of Sound Engineering: prospectus}} and was awarded the title of professor of musical arts by the President of the Republic of Poland.{{Cite web |date=2021-04-06 |title=Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 22 lutego 2021 r. nr 115.5.2021 w sprawie nadania tytułu profesora |trans-title=Order of the President of the Republic of Poland of 22 February 2021 no. 115.5.2021 on the conferment of the title of professor |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20210000323 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}

As a student at the State Secondary Music School in Łódź, Lipinski played tenor saxophone in a jazz band together with Janusz Stefanek (alto saxophone), who later joined the popular Polish band "No To Co", and Grzegorz Gierłowski (drums), who later performed with Jerzy Milian's jazz band. Lipinski also played tenor and soprano saxophone in the Polish Army Representative Orchestra under the direction of Arnold Rezler.

Lipinski's decision to study Music Production and Sound Recording was significantly influenced by his participation in the recording session of Astigmatic, Krzysztof Komeda's landmark album, which took place at the National Philharmonic Hall after the 1965 Jazz Jamboree festival concert.

File:Andrzej Lipiński podczas nagrania z Tomasz Stańko New Your Quartet.jpg

During his freshman year, he collaborated with Wieslaw Woszczyk (later president of the Audio Engineering Society and a professor at McGill University) and Jerzy Matulewicz on a pioneering 20-minute video entitled BST+RMC (Blood, Sweat & Tears and Rally Monte Carlo), to music from Grammy-winning second album Blood, Sweat & Tears.

In the second year, while continuing to play music (tenor saxophone), Lipinski recorded an LP with the Stodola Big Band, an outstanding jazz ensemble founded by Henryk Majewski (trumpet), which included many of Poland's leading jazz artists.{{Cite journal |last=Frank |first=Bartłomiej A. |title=Andrzej Lipiński |url=https://estradaistudio.pl/ |journal=Estrada i Studio, styczeń 2005, s. 82-90, ISSN 1427-0404 (Pol.). |volume=January 2005 |issue=1427–0404 |pages=82–90}}

At the end of his studies, Lipinski traveled to the United States, where he acquired his first professional sound recording equipment. Upon his return to Poland, he presented his graduation recordings at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, among which quadraphonic productions stood out - a reflection of his early involvement in the development of sound engineering techniques.{{Cite journal |last=Gołębiowski |first=Maciej Łukasz |date=2006 |title=Dookoła tylko Mozarta |url=https://www.hi-fi.com.pl/ |journal=HI FI I Muzyka Pismo Audiofila I Melomana |volume=June, 2006 |issue=1234–2173 |pages=86–89}}

After graduating with honors in 1976, Lipinski joined the faculty of his alma mater, where he began a career in education. A year later, he began working as a music producer and sound engineer at the Classical Music Recording Department of Polish National Radio, headed by Jan Weber. In 1980, he was responsible for the broadcast and recording of the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.{{Cite journal |last=Latus |first=Jan |date=26 November 2005 |title=Lipinski Sound |url=https://dziennik.com/ |journal="Nowy Dziennik", Nowy Jork |pages=8}}

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During this period, Lipinski developed his second-generation professional sound recording system and established the first private recording studio in the Eastern Bloc, MoReS (Mobile Recording Studio). Between 1977 and 1981, he produced and recorded more than 50 vinyl records for such labels as Veriton, Wifon, Helicon, Polish Jazz Association, Tonpress and Polskie Nagrania "Muza".. He collaborated with prominent artists such as Ewa Demarczyk,{{Cite web |title=Live - Albumy - Cyfrowa Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki |url=https://bibliotekapiosenki.pl/albumy/Demarczyk_Ewa_Live_Wifon_1982 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=bibliotekapiosenki.pl}} Zhanna Bichevskaya, Joachim Grubich, Franz Haselböck, Janusz Olejniczak, HaeSun Paik, Tatiana Shebanova, Wojciech Świtała, Mariusz Patyra, Luigi Alva, Ewa Iżykowska, Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk M. Górecki, Martial Solal, John Porter, Jimmy Rowles, Tomasz Stanko, Kenny Drew, Buddy Rich

Career in the United States

In 1981, at a festival in Gdansk commemorating the first anniversary of the Solidarity movement, Lipinski recorded the "First Festival of True Songs," which included banned protest songs, using his own equipment. With the help of the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, he sent these recordings to Hollywood, where he later went to release a double LP entitled Songs of Solidarity.{{Cite web |last=Artur |date=2015-10-15 |title=I Przegląd Piosenki Prawdziwej 1981 www.kaczmarski.art.pl |url=https://www.kaczmarski.art.pl/tworczosc/dyskografia/i-przeglad-piosenki-prawdziwej-1981/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=www.kaczmarski.art.pl |language=pl-PL}} After martial law was imposed in Poland, the release of this album prevented him from returning to the country for many years.{{Cite web |date=2021-04-07 |title=Jego głośniki zachwycają cały świat, a życiowa historia przypomina amerykański sen. Co obecnie robi Andrzej Lipiński? |url=https://dziendobry.tvn.pl/styl-zycia/andrzej-lipinski-kim-jest-i-jak-spelnil-swoj-american-dream-da336647-ls5314708 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=dziendobry.tvn.pl |language=pl}}

From then on, Lipinski continued his professional career in the United States, first in Hollywood and later on the East Coast. In 1984, he established his own studio, Tonmeister Recording, in Maryland. Continuing his work as a music producer and sound engineer, he consistently improved every piece of equipment he used, eventually deciding to design and build his own.{{Cite web |title=Aktywne zestawy Lipinski Sound - porównanie koncepcji (wywiad) |url=https://www.infoaudio.pl/artykul/391,aktywne-zestawy-lipinski-sound-porownanie-koncepcji-wywiad |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=INFOAUDIO.PL |language=pl}}

File:Andrzej Lipiński z głośnikiem własnej konstrukcji w komorze bezpogłosowej.jpgIn 2003, he founded Lipinski Sound Corporation in Maryland, specializing in the design and manufacture of professional audio and hi-end hi-fi equipment. Soon after, major Hollywood studios, including Universal, United Artists and Warner Bros. as well as Aftermaster - known for producing the most platinum records - began using Lipinski Sound equipment. Dolby Labs in Tokyo and Stockholm have also adopted his equipment, along with renowned music institutions such as the Peabody Institute, Cleveland Institute of Music, Berklee College of Music, New York University (both in New York and Abu Dhabi), Chopin University of Music as well as the Moscow Conservatory.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSimpU4Z9Fs |title=Andrzej Lipiński - jak podbił Amerykę oraz co zrobił dla Ameryki i świata muzyki oraz audio? Cz. 2 |date=2021-11-22 |last=Audio Video Summit - Artur Reich |access-date=2025-01-27 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuPaFUME-Mc |title=Jak Andrzej Lipiński podbił Amerykę? Droga od audio PRO do Hi-End-u Wywiad na Audio Video Summit #14 |date=2021-10-23 |last=Audio Video Summit - Artur Reich |access-date=2025-01-27 |via=YouTube}}

Since 2004, American audiophile label Mobile Fidelity has relied on Lipinski Sound monitoring systems. Moreover, as was revealed shortly after the artist's death, Prince used Lipinski Sound equipment extensively throughout his career.

Career in Poland

Since the mid-1990s, Andrew Lipinski has divided his time between the US and Poland, where he produces recordings using his own technologies. He has directed albums with prominent composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Wojciech Kilar and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. These composers were among the first to be recorded using new technologies - in particular Super Audio CD - in a project entitled "Sacred Triptych." One of these recordings, Penderecki's Credo, was included in American Stereophile magazine's "Records to Die For" list of the 80 most outstanding recordings of all time.{{Citation |title=Krzysztof Penderecki - Credo |date=2005 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/11370248-Krzysztof-Penderecki-Credo |access-date=2025-01-27 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2008-02-09 |title=2007 Records To Die For Page 8 |url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/2007-records-die-page-8 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Stereophile.com |language=en}}

In 1995, Lipinski founded Gali Film Studio in Warsaw, specializing in music video production. The studio created programs for Poland's first music TV channel Atomic TV, which later became MTV Polska.{{Cite web |title=High Fidelity |url=https://highfidelity.pl/@main-4626&lang= |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=highfidelity.pl}}

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Andrew Lipinski also created some of the world's first recordings on Blu-ray disc, including the inaugural Blu-ray recordings in Poland, using his proprietary eight-channel surround/immersive sound system{{Cite web |title=Lipinski High End |url=http://lipinskisound.com/prosumer/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=lipinskisound.com}}[https://paraty.fr/en/portfolio/chopin-piano-pleyel-1843-et-pianino-pleyel-1834-2/ Chopin:piano Pleyel 1843 & pianino Pleyel 1834, K Jacques, Paraty]. A standout project in this format was a recording of Frederic Chopin's Songs made in Paris in the only surviving hall in which Chopin performed, on the original piano on which Chopin played - an 1843 Pleyel. The recording featured prominent Polish musicians, soprano Ewa Iżykowska and pianist Wojciech Świtała. The juxtaposition of this recording with a live performance by the same artists caused a sensation at the 138th Audio Engineering Society convention.{{Cite web |last=Plaskota |first=Przemysław |title=138. Konwencja AES po raz pierwszy w Warszawie {{!}} PS AES |url=https://aes.org.pl/138-konwencja-aes-po-raz-pierwszy-w-warszawie/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |language=pl-PL}}

Continuing his academic activities, Lipinski defended his doctorate with honors and received the title of professor from the President of the Republic of Poland in 2021.. He currently is a professor in the Department of Music Production and Sound Recording at his alma mater. Lipinski continues to design state-of-the-art equipment that sets world standards for professional audio and audiophiles, and produces music recordings using his innovative technologies, which are only partially commercially available

• Diploma award at the Music High School: performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Łódź, Philharmonic Orchestra.
• World's first recording of all of W. A. Mozart's Concert Arias, featuring tenor Luigi Alva.
• World's first recording of the flute version of The Four Seasons by A. Vivaldi performed by flutist Jadwiga Kotnowska
• World's first stereo recording of Handel's opera Sosarme.
• Received a distinction from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) after demonstrating exceptional hearing during testing of the CBS's digital copy protection system. Among members of the Audio Engineering Society, Lipinski was the only participant to identify system shortcomings consistently, 100% of the time, and NBS said this was a rare talent among professionals, a one-in-1000 cases.File:Andrzej Lipiński-Mozart.jpg
• Winner and honorable mention in Crown International phonographic competitions in the USA in 1983, 1984 and 1991.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the American magazine Recording Engineer/Producer (1985-87).
• He won an Emmy Award in the sound engineering category for a series of more than 20 episodes of American Playhouse (PBS) in 1989-90.
• World premiere recording of Wojciech Kilar's Piano Concerto, featuring pianist Peter Jablonski
• World premiere recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Clarinet Concerto performed by Dmitri Ashkenazy
• In 2000, produced the first DSD surround recordings on a prototype Sony system in Caramore, NY
• In 2003, he produced the first surround recordings for Super Audio CDs in Poland.File:Andrzej Lipiński - raport NBS.jpg
• The SACD recording of Penderecki's Credo, conducted by the composer, was included in the "Records to Die For" list of the most respected American audiophile magazine Stereophile, featuring 80 of the most outstanding recordings of all time.
• In 2004, prestigious U.S. audiophile label Mobile Fidelity began using Lipinski Sound speakers to remaster historically unique recordings and consequently purchased more sets.
• He received the PAR Excellence Award for Best Product at the 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention for his Model L-408 microphone preamplifier, followed by the Pro Audio Review's Reviewer's Choice award for Best Product of the Year.
• The album Republique, containing arrangements of pop star Grzegorz Ciechowski's songs for string quartet performed by the Silesian Quartet, was honored with the 2005 Record of the Year award from the Hi-Fi i Muzyka magazine.
• Stereophile magazine (USA) nominated the Model L-707 loudspeaker for Product of the Year in 2006, and placed it on its list of Recommended Components in the highest "A" class.
• Nominated for the 2006 Fryderyk Award in the Orchestral Music Album of the Year category, Mozart - Concertos for 1, 2, 3 Pianos, High Resolution Surround recording.
• In 2008, he produced one of the world's first Blu-ray recordings using a proprietary  8-channel surround/immersive sound system.
• A Blu-ray surround/immersive recording of Fryderyk Chopin's Songs in Paris, performed in the only surviving original room where Chopin played, on the original piano on which Chopin played - an 1843 Pleyel has been produced. The juxtaposition of this recording with a live performance by the same artists caused a sensation at the 138th Audio Engineering Society convention.
• Granted patents in the field of electroacoustic technology in 2007. (1 patent) and 2014. (2 patents).
• Produced and recorded the only live performance by Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet using High Resolution Surround technology.
• The L-707A Signature speakers received the Best of the Year award at the 2015 Shanghai Audio Show.
• Lipinski Sound equipment has been used to produce Grammy-winning albums, including the last Chick Corea's "Trilogy 2," Shostakovich's "Symphony No.13" and Beck's "Morning Phase," which won three Grammy Awards: "Best Rock Album," "Best Recorded Album" and "Album of the Year," among five nominations in one year.

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Since 2015 he is married to Ewa Iżykowska. From a previous marriage, he is the father of Lukas Lipinski of The Policy Bridge LLC, and he is a grandfather to Preston Lipinski and Victor Lipinski.

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