Walton Stinson

Along with his partner, Steven Weiner, he traveled to Japan in October 1982[4] to obtain the first batch of compact discs and convinced Sony and Nippon Columbia (Denon) to provide him with the first available players.

In the words of Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever, An Aural History of Recorded Music: “People like Stinson were the grassroots end of a publicity and marketing juggernaut that, in the space of a few years, transformed the CD from an expensive curiosity into the dominant music media.” [6] Stinson incorporated dramatic stunts into his advocacy for CDs, highlighting their durability and reliability.

During a gathering at the Gates Planetarium in Denver, he demonstrated this by smearing peanut butter and jelly on a CD, scribing it with a knife, then rinsing it in water and showing its flawless playback.

[7] In 2010, Home Entertainment Source (HES) merged with ProGroup[8] to form ProSource, the largest consumer electronics buying group in North America, with over $5.5 Billion in sales.

Operating from his room at the Grand Anse campus of Saint George's Medical School, Baratella became an essential link between the island and the rest of the world — as a source of news and vital information.