THAT Corp certainly make some very nice and useful devices.
But they actually didn't make sota gear it wasn't even very good. Meaning they sold that story, but their products weren't high quality at all. Their customers didn't get what their story promised. They only got the psychological comfort.I see them as no different than Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, not inventing, but identifying and applying. Their background (Theta, Sumo) combined with their storytelling somehow allowed the highly subjective audiophile groups to 1) start to accept that SOTA didn’t have to cost 6 figures, and 2) that internet direct audio companies were legitimate and could make high quality products.
Yes, David Blackmer was quite the engineer (THAT is descended from dbx, which Blackmer founded).THAT Corp certainly make some very nice and useful devices.
Can't leave the ladies out of this fellows as inventor and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread spectrum technique developed in the 1940s...
[italics added]Yes, David Blackmer was quite the engineer (THAT is descended from dbx, which Blackmer founded).
Not "all", Toole and Olive (and Amir) are recent additions to this cannon. We could also probably add Bruno Putzeys (http://www.brunoputzeys.be) - they are all alive and kicking!
I don't know, to me those are marketing achievements, not really science achievements. Maybe if one of their proprietary new circuits was something extraordinary and so much better than the competition, but I have not yet seen anything like that yet.I see them as no different than Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, not inventing, but identifying and applying. Their background (Theta, Sumo) combined with their storytelling somehow allowed the highly subjective audiophile groups to 1) start to accept that SOTA didn’t have to cost 6 figures, and 2) that internet direct audio companies were legitimate and could make high quality products.
Now, in my opinion, Bruno's contribution to class D is something else. He may not have invented it, but the amount of refinements he discovered himself leading to state of the art performance, while still costing a few hundred dollars per module... Now this is very significant.We could also probably add Bruno Putzeys (http://www.brunoputzeys.be)
I don't know, to me those are marketing achievements, not really science achievements. Maybe if one of their proprietary new circuits were something extraordinary and so much better than the competition, but I have not yet seen anything like that yet.
Both are very good examples of brilliant market visionaries in their fields. Still I would not call them "science innovators".I don't know for Steve Jobs but Elon Musk doesn't create and don't do science. He's paying people to do that. He takes decisions (IMO finance related)
Yes, David Blackmer was quite the engineer (THAT is descended from dbx, which Blackmer founded).
I do love my Earthworks microphones. Wished I had some of the EW preamps, but don't. Claimed SINAD of -120 db.I knew Dave and his son (who is responsible for Earthworks mics and pre-amps). I mentioned THAT mainly for their audio IC's which came after the split, both Daves deserve a mention on their own as does Henry Kloss another 1960's Boston/Cambridge pioneer.
He also invented the triode, which made (relatively) high quality amplification possible in the first place.The development and commercialization of the "Talkies". Lee de Forest was awarded several patents that would lead to the first optical sound on film technology.
Kind of a big deal -- even if one is more of a solid state kind of hominid.He also invented the triode, which made (relatively) high quality amplification possible in the first place.
Why? You know he didn't believe in EM waves or any of Maxwells theories? People give him more credit than he deserves.Nikola Tesla