In the meantime, Alfred Rudolph is the more active one regarding his own recordings and, as mentioned, doesn't even shy away from transporting a Telefunken machine. At the moment, Hermann Winters' hobby is the enormously time-consuming restoration of an Ibach Welte grand piano. Of 1090 grand pianos, only 55 of these were built by Ibach, which are able to reproduce, thanks to piano rolls, the play—including the touch sensitivity— of leading Pianists, true to the original. In total about 4500 pieces including pianos and Pianolas (player pianos) were manufactured. One of Hermann Winters' best memories is lying under the home grand piano, listening to it and tuning it. Was it back then that his roots for his lifelong engagement with the reproduction of music were laid? "No" Hermann Winters objects, "they are much older than this." The origins were his dad's record player, radio and tape recorder which he was allowed to use at a mere 3 years old, and his friend's "amazing equipment" at the beginning of the sixties.

Hermann Winters is, by the way, also responsible for the production of the Ion tweeters. In the workshop in the Koloniestraße you can always find a whole string of these excellent tweeters. In my experience, no diamond inverse dome can even get remotely close to the vividness of a TW1S, which are subject to a daylong endurance test before they are used. The tweeters are only manufactured for their own use, even if their list on the website suggests the assumption that they may also be bought separately. The production of the TW1S is far too expensive to be able to make them available to other manufacturers. Hermann Winters made it categorically clear:  "We don't make supplementary chassis for different external constructions."