Producer/engineer, musician and singer Tony Visconti has fitted out his NYC studio with Barefoot Sound MM27 monitors.

‘I’ve been in this studio for five years,’ he says. ‘I’ve added a little more equipment, including these wonderful speakers behind me but nothing much has changed. I’d like to keep things status quo for awhile.’

Since the late 1960s, Visconti has worked with a wide array of recording artists. His lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie – intermittently, from the 1969 album Space Oddity to 2013’s The Next Day, Visconti has produced and occasionally performed on many of Bowie’s albums.

‘The first time I heard a pair of Barefoots was during the Sonic Highways sessions at the Magic Shop in New York City when Butch Vig brought his own pair,’ Visconti says. ‘They were on the board and, at first, I thought it was the in-wall monitor speakers – but it was the Barefoots that I was listening to. I finally got it... these are great speakers and I’ve got to have them.

‘I know some monitors are very coloured; they’ll give you extended low end, and a crunchy mid-range. I’ve been deceived too many times by getting a souped-up pair of monitors in my studio. I’ve tried everything and spent years and years of research to find something that I’m really happy with.’

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