the studio changed ownership at various times during its life span. in 1980 john senn, who was then sole owner of the facility, decided to close the studio due in part to declining business. one factor to which the decline in clients was attributed was the rise in popularity of disco music. other factors, like the growing affordability of semipro products for recording at home which started to appear in the mid 1970s, along with the number of bands declining after the boom which followed the british invasion in the early 1960s, likely contributed too.