Second only to my very home, my favorite place to be in Manhattan is the Live Room at L. Brown Recording. Here is a link to an article in Pro Sound Network about Louis's studio.

Piano Is Key To Brown’s Studio
By Christopher Walsh: 8/9/2011

Excerpt:
There are few experiences more pleasing than to sit at an ornately carved 1881 Steinway D Centennial concert grand piano as its unimaginably honeyed tones fill the room. Add a brilliant, sunlit view of the Hudson River, and you just may transcend to the astral plane.

“The piano is extremely special,” agrees Louis Brown, principal of L. Brown Recording, located in New York’s historic Film Center Building. “They only made around 400 of these, between 1876 and 1884, for the Centennial of the United States. Doing classical music, I have to have something unique, and a Steinway D was a must.”

Arts pundits who conclude classical music is dying based on the decline of classical music radio are just ignorant. We all have easy access to all the music we want. We don't have to bother tuning in to radio stations anymore. Those have been hopelessly eclipsed by other distribution media. What's moribund with respect to classical music radio is the business model of using radio waves to sell audiences to advertisers. Those of us who have some serious listening to do have abundant sources that don't necessarily involve you Station Owners, you Program Directors, you Account Sales Managers, and you Advertisers.

So while we music lovers listen to more music than ever before, you guys might have to look for other work. Sorry about that.