Pristine Audio was founded in 2002 by Andrew Rose, then a

BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering ...

sound engineer, as an audio transfer and restoration business. Following its relocation from the

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in 2004, the company began to concentrate on the restoration and remastering of historic classical music recordings. In February 2005 Pristine Audio Direct was launched online, later to become PristineClassical.com, offering downloads of classical music both from Pristine's own remastered recordings and from other record companies. Pristine Audio came to unexpected global attention during the

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scandal in February 2007, after being asked to investigate and verify suspected fraudulent Hatto recordings by ''

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''.

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