How a Missing Headphone Jack Became the Monk GTR

Long before Venture Electronics existed, Wild Lee remembers sitting in a freezing apartment playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It was cold enough that he was wrapped in a thick blanket, and at the time, he tells me, it was fairly normal where he lived for apartment heating not to run through the night. Somewhere in the middle of all that, Symphony of the Night took him down into its Underground Caverns and Michiru Yamane's soundtrack started playing. Decades later, Lee still remembers exactly how that moment felt.For someone who would eventually build a company around audio, it sounds almost too appropriate as an origin story, except Lee doesn't describe himself as an audio obsessive who later discovered games. It happened the other way around. Audio, he says, has been part of his life for as long as he can remember, but it was really a spin-off from gaming. That night with Castlevania was one of the first times he understood just how important sound could be to the…