Employees

prof. dr hab.

Andrzej Lipiński

studio technology

Prof. Dr. Andrzej (Andrew) Lipinski graduated summa cum laude from the Department of Sound Engineering at the Academy of Music in Warsaw in 1976.  In the same year he took a job at his alma mater, and a year later at the Classical Music Recording Editorial Office of The Polish National Radio.  In the meantime, he assembled his own equipment for professional recordings and established the first private recording studio in the Eastern Bloc - MoReS (Mobile Recording Studio).  Between 1977 and 1981, he recorded over 50 LP’s (longplays) for labels such as Veriton, Vifon, Tonpress, and the Polish Jazz Association, immortalizing such artists as Luigi Alva, Buddy Rich, Kenny Drew, Tomasz Stanko, Ewa Demarczyk, Joachim Grubich, Janusz Olejniczak, Andrzej Chorosinski and the best Polish orchestras and choirs. 

In 1981, he recorded on his private equipment the First Festival of Forbidden (protest) Songs in Gdansk – commemorating the first anniversary of the Solidarity movement in Poland.  With the great help of the US Embassy, he managed to send the material to Hollywood, where he then flew and released a two-disc album entitled "Songs of Solidarity."  After the imposition of Martial Law in Poland, and therefore being considered a dissident prevented him from returning to Poland, he was subsequently granted political asylum to the US.  

Moreover, after sending the album to the Vatican he received a handwritten acknowledgement card from Pope John Paul II himself.

Since then, he continued his professional career in the US with spectacular results - first in Hollywood, later on the East Coast. After the introduction of digital sound recording, he was invited to tests conducted by the National Bureau of Standards where he was the only one to demonstrate phenomenal hearing by detecting the shortcomings of the digital system. The National Bureau of Standards report stated that among audio professionals such rare hearing ability is possible only one in 1,000 individuals.

In 1991, he was the winner of the Crown International competition in the US for the best professional recording with PZM / SASS microphones.

In 1996, he founded the GALI Film Studio in Poland, specialized in creating and postproduction of music videos for Poland's first music television station, Atomic TV – cofounded by Bob Geldof (later acquired by MTV).

At the same time, while continuing to work as a recording engineer/producer in the US, he improved even the best equipment available on the market.  Eventually, however, he decided to take this a step further and construct his own equipment, utilized by him.  In 2003 he founded Lipinski Sound Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland.  In just two short years, the company built worldwide recognition and a reputation for quality. 

Currently, Lipinski Sound equipment is used by the world's leading studios, among Hollywood establishments including Universal, Warner, United Artists, and After Master – a studio with the highest number of platinum records of all time.  Lipinski equipment is also used by Dolby laboratories in Tokyo and Stockholm, and among 40+ other countries, used by the world's best music universities in the US such as Peabody, Cleveland Institute of Music, Berkeley, New York University, McGill University - Canada, Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw, Poland, as well as the Moscow Conservatory. 

Since the first review, Lipinski Sound loudspeakers have been on the list of Recommended Components of the renowned American magazine Stereophile in the highest "A" class among only a dozen other loudspeakers for several years, as well as receiving fantastic reviews in many global trade magazines.

The equipment has been used to produce albums that have won numerous Grammy awards such as Chick Corea's latest album, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, and the album "Morning Phase" by Beck, which in one year alone was nominated for as many as five Grammys and won three of them for: "Best Rock Album," "Best Recorded Album" and "Album of the Year."  It was also recently revealed that PRINCE also worked on Lipinski Sound equipment, wherein LIPINSKI speakers were found in his personal vault which stored his most prized possessions.

Dr. Lipinski has been dividing his time between the US and Poland since the mid-90’s where he again made several recordings using his prized technologies.  He engineered and produced albums with artists such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk M. Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, and Tomasz Stańko.  The aforementioned composers were also the first to be captured and recorded in new technologies - Super Audio CD and Blu-ray discs.  The disc conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki with his piece "Credo" was listed in the prestigious American monthly Stereophile magazine as "Records To Die For" - among the 80 most outstanding recordings of all time, alongside Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”.

Dr. Lipinski also founded the audiophile label Lipinski Royal Fidelity.  He made some of the world's first recordings on Blu-ray discs in his proprietary 8-channel high-resolution immersive sound system.  The recording of Frederic Chopin's "Songs" in Paris made in this format, recorded in the only originally preserved concert hall where Chopin performed in Paris, and featuring the original piano on which Chopin performed (Pleyel 1843) - caused a sensation at the 138th Audio Engineering Society convention.

In 2021 Dr. Lipinski received a professorial degree from the president of Poland.

Currently Dr. Lipinski is a professor at his alma mater, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, at the Department of Sound Direction (a Tonmeister program established in 1954).  He researches and develops new equipment that sets the highest standards in the world of sound recorded arts, while engineering and producing recordings on his prized equipment.  Some of the equipment remains proprietary to him, and is not commercially available