In Reply to: Sad news, Dr. Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg has passed away posted by Ray Kimber on July 16, 2001 at 17:52:24:
Geez...We were emailing a week or so ago...
Harvey was a colorful part of the audio scene for many years. I first met him back in the early 70's when he had just moved NYAL up to Ossining (right near Sing-Sing Prison...) NY. He was making those extremely large (for their day...) Futterman amps, some were 4 chassis units - amp chassis, power supply chassis, needing a pair to make stereo. He had the BIG Sound Labs in the listening room there. Apparently he had hired Jon Snyder who later designed most of the amps that made Krell famous to wring out the problems in the Futtermans -
and another fellow whose name escapes me at the momement who really knew his stuff too, and designed those neat and quiet Nuvistor based preamps for him...A few years back I participated in a really curious Triode Guild "party" at his place in CT - he had the Westminster Tannoys, a huge
industrial room with 30 ft ceilings... and about 40 people lugging along mostly home made triode gear of assorted types and shapes...I always enjoyed Harvey's flair and imagination - his style spoke for itself - and his writing was really quite good. The book he wrote on audio and "zen" is a worthwhile read. (what was the title?? - I have it in the LR on the shelf...)
_-_-bear
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