Al Stiefel Leaves Us

Al, perhaps best known, along with his wife Marjorie, as the organizer and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, as well being co-partner of Red Rock Audio, left us all to go to that perhaps bigger and hopefully less stressful high-end audio show in the sky.

Al was our friend [who we loved], a supporter of Audio Federation, a supporter of local high-end audio manufacturers, dealers, and audiophiles both here in Colorado, nationally, and world-wide.

A lot of people support these things in spirit, but few [none] throw so much [all] of their energy and time and sweat into it.

There is really no one else [coming even close to] doing what Al did for all of us audiophiles. Just the way he actually cared for and about the success of each and every exhibitor – both at the show and the whole year ’round – is uniquely ‘Al’.

He will be missed and missed and missed…

[RMAF 2009 will, like always, be next October, with organization by Marjorie, and support by Joe Reynolds (Nordost), Ray Kimber and Roy Gregory (HiFi+)]