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In Reply to: RE: What were your big leaps in audio posted by Bold Eagle on August 22, 2014 at 18:17:30
Jerry,
That is SO kind of you to mention your get together with Chuck. He was a wonderful Uncle, a great speaker designer, and a damn good person. I miss him a LOT since he passed away last year.
Thank you for your thoughts.
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Jim,
Thank you for the reply. I really imposed on him; but he was so kind about the whole thing. I did pick up the bar tab; but it was a very small thing compared to what he did for me. When the meeting finally started; he did a great presentation.
Our group was the new England chapter of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (the IES). We had nothing to do with ecology or the natural environment; but we were focused on environmental testing, like vibration, shock, acceleration, sand and dust, humidity, fungus, and acoustical noise, mostly related to the aerospace industry. A number of budding "environmentalists" (i.e. ,tree huggers) came to our meetings and went away totally confused. The vibration, acoustic noise and shock testing were closely related to audio, and most of our members were interested in home hi-fi; so Chuck's talk was well attended and very well received.
My own role was as the Manager of a vibration and shock testing lab. We had 7 moving coil shakers, and five large vacuum tube amps. Four at 45 KVA, and a smaller, 1 KVA tube amp for the accelerometer calibration shaker. Shock was done on the shakers with a shaped pulse input.
Jerry
After unpacking my stuff in the college dorm (TD150/Rabco/XLM/Mac C26/Sony TA3120F/double Advents) my new roommate said, "Here, try this," handing me a beat-to-s**t Dyna PAS 3 with no faceplate or knobs.
*Oh.*
That's when I started listening and learning - September 1973.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
I did not linked you with Chuck. I knew him during the Teledyne days. An amazing fellow with fantastic speaker knowledge.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
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