Pictured at The Village Recorder are (L-R) poker winner Jody Whitesides holding the TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustic C-12 microphone system and RI-PT founder and host Dave Reitzas. Photo by David Goggin.

Los Angeles, CA, August 2010 — The 2nd Annual Record Industry Poker Tournament was a resounding success, raising much-needed funds for Sound Art LA, the youth-oriented music education foundation. More than 100 of the music industry's top producers, engineers, musicians and audio manufacturers attended the event at The Village Recorders hosted by Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Reitzas.

Songwriter/composer Jody Whitesides was the last man standing at the end of the Texas Holdem play, picking a TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik C-12 microphone system and runner-up Gary Reitzas chose Bricasti's new M1 Digital-to-Analog Converter.

Other winners selected from a valuable array of product from sponsors including American Music and Sound, Antares Audio Technologies, Apogee, Audio-Technica, Beyer Dynamic, Blue Microphones, Brainworx, Design FX, EastWest Sounds and Studios, FXpansion USA, Focusrite-Novation, Gavin Lurssen, Genelec,

Pictured at The Village Recorder, spectators look on as the final table players compete for the coveted Grand Prizes donated by top Industry Manufacturers including Telefunfen, Bricasti, Summit Audio, Solid State Logic and more. Photo by David Goggin.

Korg, Little Labs, Matthew Lane, Millennia Media, Mojave Audio, Ocean Way Drums, Platinum Samples, Propellorhead, RealTraps, Royer, Shure, Solid State Logic, Sonalksis, SPL, Steinberg, Steven Slate Digital, Summit Audio, Tonehunter, Toontrack, and Universal Audio.

"The generosity of the sponsors, the enthusiasm of the players, and the caliber of the prizes were just amazing!" remarked Reitzas. "My goal of creating a fun day where the people of our industry get to see each other face to face has far exceeded my expectations and I am humbled by the support for this event. Thanks everybody!"

Reitzas created this event one year ago as a way of bringing the recording industry community and manufacturers together, while supporting and raising money for a charity that focuses on kids and music.

The Recording Industry Poker Tournament is a KMD Productions event. For more information visit www.ri-pt.webs.com.

ABOUT TELEFUNKEN ELEKTROAKUSTIK

TELEFUNKEN | USA acquired the TELEFUNKEN Trademark for North America in 2001, and in 2009 the company was named the Elektroakustik (translation: Electrical Acoustics) arm of TELEFUNKEN and awarded the exclusive rights to manufacture a wide variety of professional audio products and vacuum tubes bearing the TELEFUNKEN name, in over 27 countries worldwide. Recreating the classic TELEFUNKEN microphones has been a labor of love for the company CEO, Toni Fishman and the pursuit of that dream has culminated in the manufacture of what we at TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik believe are the finest microphones currently available in the world today.

Along with meticulously manufacturing historic replicas of classic microphones by hand in the USA, TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik is now marketing the R-F-T series of microphones that take advantage of the globalization of technology, in order to offer recording microphones with professional sonic performance at reasonable prices.

Our latest additions to the TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik product line include a revolutionary new capsule design based on Alloy 2213™, an exceptional dynamic microphone [the M80], and a vacuum tube replacement for the original TELEFUNKEN VF14 which offers comparable performance in our U47 and new U48 microphones.

TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik continues to expand, and research and development of new products is an ongoing process. Although based firmly on classic designs, TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik is continuously looking forward. Important changes in our company and further expansion of our product line are slated for the immediate future.

For more information about TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik, call 860.882.5919 or e-mail info@t-funk.com.