I first met Enzo in the early 1980s. While he played an important role is establishing US high-end brands in Europe—his company, Audio Natali, founded in 1959, distributes Audio Research, Krell, Dan D'Agostino, Transparent, VTL, Ayre, Wilson, MartinLogan, and Shunyata in Italy, as well as European brands like Devialet and darTZeel—he was also the consummate gentleman. Erstwhile Stereophile publisher Larry Archibald remembers: "Enzo had practically the most perfect Italian I've ever heard. He spoke so well, and so carefully, that [my wife] could understand him even though she didn't speak any Italian at the time." I remember commenting that while his good friend Ricardo Franassovici's English was idiosyncratic (Ricardo's first language is Portugese, his second French), his Italian seemed fine, to which Enzo, smiling broadly, replied "Ricardo's English is better than his Italian."
Ciao, Enzo.
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