Mr. Kent Poon – Asian recording producer, sound engineer and entrepreneur. His recording works started from 1993 in North America, to participate large number of recording and mastering music projects. His first 24bit / 96kHz high-definition digital recording was made in 1995. In 1997 Kent joined the world’s largest audio society AES (Audio Engineering Society), one of the youngest full members in AES history. He was widely recognised by the Chinese audiophiles from his technical articles written for few Hong Kong audiophile magazines.

Before year 2000, Kent cooperation with the Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer “Focus Audio” to develop MT1 / MC1 / FS888 series loudspeakers for McGill University in Montreal. They won the 1999 Grammy motion picture engineering award. Throughout these early years, Kent came into contact with the Swiss manufacturer Weiss Engineering about digital mastering products. This became an important standing open for future cooperation.

Kent became Weiss Engineering consultant in year 2000. He returned to Hong Kong around 2003, to commemorate the debut recording “Audiophile Jazz Prologue” project by his “Design w Sound” production company. 2005 “Audiophile Jazz Prologue part 02” established the highest audio quality standard in SACD format. 2009 “Audiophile Jazz Prologue part 03” released in the form of revolutionary high-definition audio files format. This becomes very popular in audiophile communities worldwide.

From the 2003 to 2007, Kent served as technical consultant for one of the biggest audio distributors in Greater China region to help this company develop high-end digital audio market. 2007-2009, Kent joined a private company to consolidate one Hong Kong and one Japan public company subsidiaries to set up in Hong Kong, and opened its first thirty thousand square footage flagship store. Over the same period he has the opportunity to work with the legendary music master Mr. Chris Babida, and participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games theme music recording work.

In year 2010 Mr. Kent Poon and Mr.Daniel Weiss from Weiss Engineering Switzerland joint venture established “Asia Weiss Limited” in Hong Kong, handling all Weiss Asia regional works as the head office. The same year in August Kent and the other two directors established “SquareWave Limited” for multi-brands audio distribution business. “Square Wave” represents a perfect reputation of digital information, target in leading digital audio business development as its main approach.

Mr. Kent Poon is committed to promoting high-definition digital audio and quality recording culture. 2011 he produced the first regional “Pure Audio Bluray” cooperation with German biggest mastering studio “MSM Studios” in Munich.

Cooperation with the Hong Kong “HiFitrack.com” to launch high-definition digital audio file format. Producing many high quality recordings for legendary musicians Tsai Chin, Roman Law, Paula Tsui, Leo Ku, Sandy Lam, Bondy Chiu, Christ Wong, Lily Chan, Raidas, Beyond, Mimi Law, Danny Summer, Yiruma etc. Kent is one of the first two Apple approved “Mastered for iTunes” (MFiT) studios in Asia. His skill sets cover all technical technologies from PCM, DSD/SACD, MQA, Binaural, to Immersive formats like Sony 360RA, Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D etc.

During Covid period, Kent and legendary Jazz producers and concert organiser Clarence Chang joined force and formed “Jazz World Records”. They helps great Hong Kong local Jazz heros to release high quality album recordings, for example Eugene Pao, Ted Lo, Patrick Lui, Danny Chu, Joyce Cheung and Bowen Li. They also licence international Jazz icons recordings for HiRes release like Stacey Kent.

Mr. Kent Poon believes recordings represent time. High-quality sound recording and reproducing can transcend time, bring out the deepest memories. Hope you will like high end audio sound and find your own definition of time.

Kent Poon 潘建章先生是錄音監製及音響工程師。他於1993年在北美開始音樂製作，參與大量錄音及母帶生產項目。1995年錄製其首個24bit/96kHz高清數碼錄音，97年加入世界最大音響學會AES(Audio Engineering Society)，是歷史上最年輕全職會員之一。同年成立母帶音響研究室，5年間參與超過600多個錄音工程，同時間在香港多本音響雜誌撰寫數碼技術文章而為本地音響愛好者所認識。

潘建章先生於1999年與加拿大揚聲器生產商 Focus Audio 合作研製 MT1/MC1/FS888 系列揚聲器，供應給蒙特婁麥基爾大學(McGill University)錄音部門的格蘭美得獎錄音師使用。Kent由那時開始接觸瑞士 Weiss Engineering 的數碼母帶產品，立定了未來合作的開啟。

潘建章先生由2000年成為Weiss Engineering 音響顧問，2003年回流香港，為了紀念而錄製了首張《爵士原音三部曲》”Audiophile Jazz Prologue” 專輯，之後潘先生成立了Design w Sound製作公司。2005年《爵士原音2》使用了當時最高規格的SACD制式。2009《爵士原音3》加入革命性HiRes高清音頻檔案，於全球發燒音響界大受歡迎。

潘先生由2003至2007年曾擔任大中華區其中最大音響代理的技術顧問，協助此公司發展高階數碼音響市場。2007-2009年期間，潘建章先生加入了一私人公司成功協助在香港和日本兩大上市公司在香港成立合併子公司，並且開設了首間超過三萬平方呎的商店。同期有幸與音樂大師鮑比達先生合作，參與了2008年北京奧運會主題音樂錄音工作。

2010年潘建章先生及瑞士Weiss Engineering創辦人Daniel Weiss在香港合資成立了Asia Weiss Limited (亞洲威仕有限公司)。同年八月與另外二位董事成立了 Square Wave Limited (方浪國際有限公司)發展多元化音響品牌代理業務。”SquareWave方浪”代表了完美數碼資料的意義，定立了業務發展頂尖數碼音響的主力方針。一直發展至今，代理十多個頂尖音響品牌，亞洲地區性分公司設立於台灣，上海，曼谷，名古屋等等

潘建章先生致力推廣高清數碼音響文化及高品質錄音，在2011年首間與德國慕尼黑最大母帶製作室MSM-Studios合作發展Pure Audio Bluray純音響藍光唱片，與本港HiFitrack.com合作推出高清數碼音頻檔案，成為大中華地區首兩間蘋果”Mastered for iTunes” (MFiT) 驗證製作室。為傳奇音樂人蔡琴、羅文、徐小鳳、古巨基、林憶蓮、趙學而、黃凱芹、陳潔麗、Raidas、Beyond、羅敏莊、Danny Summer、Yiruma等製作多張高質量唱片。製作技能涵蓋 PCM、DSD/SACD、MQA、Binaural至沉浸式格式（如 Sony 360RA、Dolby Atmos、Auro-3D 等）的所有音頻技術。

新冠疫情期間，潘建章與傳奇爵士樂製作人兼音樂會組織者張景謙強強聯手，創立了“爵士樂世界唱片”。 他們幫助偉大的香港本土爵士樂英雄發行高質量的專輯唱片，例如包以正、羅尚正、Patrick Liu、Danny Chu、Joyce Cheung和Bowen Li。 他們還為國際爵士樂偶像 Stacey Kent, Enrico Pieranunzi, Doctor 3 等授權高清錄音版本。

從 2021 年起，潘建章被邀請為中國蒙特勒爵士音樂節的首席技術官，這是瑞士傳奇音樂節的延伸。

潘建章先生認為錄音，是時間的代表。高品質錄音及音響重播是能超越時間，重回到一個時光。 希望你會認識音響，找到你心裡的時光。

_{Blanks in the card I cannot even fill with words,
Neither can my feelings of you be translated.
As for my love, cannot be written down,
But one person,
The only you will be able to read.}