Could be; you might be thinking of Otala, whose work was pretty soundly beaten up by Bob Cordell and a few others. Earliest I'm aware of was stuff from Hiraga, which pre-dated Otala.
Whenever there's something really, really stupid in the high end audio niche, it seems to nearly always eventually lead back to Hiraga.
Whenever there's something really, really stupid in the high end audio niche, it seems to nearly always eventually lead back to Hiraga.