As Amir had noted in Part 1, Peter Lyngdorf had been one of the early pioneers in room correction. Boz had designed the correction system, or as Peter referred to it, the "DSP engines" for the TacT processors. (See the attached clip of the post Peter had written on Audiogon in 2001 about how TacT Audio was started and the RCS was developed. Note that Peter was the majority owner of NAD at the time and originally intended for TacT to be the high-end line of NAD. In fact, on the first TacT RCS processors you could see the NAD logo flash on the screen for a few milliseconds at startup.) But then Peter sold his ownership in NAD to fund the startup of TacT Audio as a separate company.
Boz isn't involved with Lyngdorf at all (I heard it was a nasty split) but both he and Peter retained the rights to the Toccata/TI class-D amp and shared the front panel & chassis (probably due to commitments to the contractor who manufactured them.) Boz got to keep the room correction system he designed and the existing processors and amps, while Peter got to keep the speakers, renamed the "MH-1 mkII" and "W-210" (the C1 and W410 were discontinued.) IIRC, both TacT and Lyngdorf released a Millenium MkIII amp, but the Millennium MkIV is a Lyngdorf amp. Boz then created a new line called "BOZ" consisting of the BOZ 216 controller/BOZ 2200 amp(s) combo that could provide up to 16 channels, but few were sold. Boz also developed a new TacT RCS called the "TacT X4" that was never released:
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Boz essentially shut down TacT Audio in 2012 to concentrate on his new LED lighting business, "Pontilux" (
http://www.pontilux.com/), which is located in the same building as TacT Audio in New Mexico.
Then around the end of 2012, Emotiva Audio licensed the TCS mkIII room correction software from Boz for the upcoming Emotiva XMC-1 pre-pro. Boz even had attended EmoFest in 2013 to demonstrate the TacT room correction, although it was on an RCS 2.2 XP. However, in 2014 the company that Emotiva contracted to port the TCS mkIII code to the XMC-1 was way behind schedule and said that they were busy porting Dirac to another company's pre-pro. The contractor suggested that it would be easier and faster to port the Dirac code than the TCS mkIII code to the XMC-1. Emotiva, which was already 2+ years behind the promised release date of the XMC-1, decided to go with Dirac as the room correction system for the XMC-1 (and the more recent RMC-1.) And which audio company was the contractor porting Dirac for? (Drum roll)
NAD!
As for Lyngdorf Audio, Peter had the hardware and speakers, but no room correction system. He hired a group of engineers to develop a new room correction system, but it sucked. Then he fired those guys and hired Jan Abildgaard Pedersen who designed RoomPerfect, which has been successful and even licensed to McIntosh Labs.
I think I've flogged that horse to death. Is there anything else you want to know?