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  Blue Microphones
5706 Corsa Avenue, Suite 102
Westlake Village, CA 91362-4057
 +1-818-879-5200
http://bluemic.com/

Blue (for Baltic Latvin Universal Electronics) began in 1995 as a collaboration of two audio industry veterans with an unconventional approach to design and manufacturing. Blue, LLC co-founder Skipper Wise combined his experience as a musician and producer with co-founder Martins Saulespurens’ career as a technical audio and electronics engineer to create a “synergy of style and substance.”

The founding principle behind the establishment of Blue was simple: raise the bar for excellence and innovation in the field of microphone design and technology.

Blue’s mics are perhaps best known for their unconventional designs.

Credit for these designs has been a source of dispute, as is the source of manufacturing. Read claims made by Juris Zarins about the rights to Blue’s microphone designs, and an unofficial and unsigned response by Blue. For a time, several of the Blue mics were sold under the name JZ1, JZ2, JZ3, JZ4, JZ5, JZ6, by the company JZMics — founded by Juris Zarins. The fact that JZMics is no longer selling these mics suggests that Blue prevailed in a related legal action.

Company founders Wise and Saulespurens sold a majority stake of BLUE to Transom Capital Group in April 2008; the new owners doubled the size of the staff (to 50) and shifted the company’s focus to consumer, rather than professional recording products.

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