✠ Naomi Spectrum · Analog Music Restoration
An early-stage venture of 33 Holding Group, founded July 30, 2026. We restore real analog recordings — vinyl, shellac 78s, tape — using signal models checked against known ground truth before they are ever trusted on a real disc, so what reaches the ear is the performance that was actually played. Given to the care of Our Lady, August 3, 2026.
Jon Simmons, in the words that founded this venture: "We are trying to solve a problem, of providing the highest fidelity analog music from the smallest of devices, and we want to provide the fullest spectrum there is… to lift people up, not beat them down."
Real music was played once, in a real room, and a real recording captured it — and then decades of shellac wear, tape hiss, and lossy compression stood between that performance and the person who wants to hear it. Naomi Spectrum exists to close that distance honestly: not by adding polish, but by separating what was actually played from what damaged the recording afterward, and giving back only the first thing.
Every venture under 33 Holding Group is governed by the same conviction. Here it takes a specific, technical form: reconstruct, never invent.
Every part of a restored recording traces to something measured in the disc. Nothing is synthesized to fill a gap the source doesn't actually have.
Every technique is checked against synthetic material with a known right answer before it is ever run on a real recording — the same discipline that has already caught real defects in our own early work.
Restorations are measured for whether they whitened the music into noise or oversmoothed it into mush — either direction is a failure, and both are reported when they happen.
Most restoration tools ask you to trust your ears against a marketing claim. We think of the work instead as a kind of prism: take the one recording, disperse it into what is actually there — the notes and the noise are physically different things — and let the true performance come back together on the other side, undamaged. That is a testable claim, not an aesthetic one, and we hold it to that standard.
A diamond takes one white light and disperses it into all its colors by physics, not decoration. A recording is one pressure wave the ear already disperses into its modes. We build the digital version of that dispersion — sort the true signal from the noise by what each one physically is, not by ear alone.
On a real 1925 acoustic recording, an early declicking pass — checked against synthetic ground truth first — cut audible clicks by roughly 80% while a strict signal-quality measurement stayed unmoved. A real number, reported honestly, not a demo reel.
A measurement that can't be made honestly is refused, not estimated. When a technique has a known limitation — and one real one has already been found and measured — it is named plainly rather than hidden behind a good-looking sample.
The fullest spectrum of real music has to reach the smallest device over the worst connection, or the mission has only served the comfortable. Economical delivery is a design requirement here, not an afterthought.
Naomi Spectrum is an early-stage venture of 33 Holding Group, Inc. — no entity is yet formed, and no revenue exists. What is real is the research: a working note-extraction and declicking pipeline, tested first on synthetic material with a known right answer and then on an actual 1925 acoustic disc, with results reported honestly in both directions.
What is not yet proven: performance on full orchestral and percussive material, where early testing has already found a real limitation — a fast, broadband musical attack can still be mistaken for damage — worth solving before it is trusted broadly. Nothing here is claimed as market-ready. The venture proceeds as the Lord provides direction for it — paused for a season already, once, and resumed by the same hand that paused it.