The Audio Expert, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

It’s important to thank the people who were most influential over the years in teaching me “how technology works.” First was Marty Yolles, who, when I was about 12, spent many Saturday afternoons helping me overhaul an old lawnmower engine I would later use for a home-made go-cart. Then later in my teens and early 20s, Cliff Mills, Allen Podell, Marvin Fleischman, and others graciously gave their valuable time to answer my endless beginner questions about audio and radio electronics. Later, Leo Taylor and I designed and built several analog synthesizers and other audio devices, with Leo doing most of the designing and me doing all of the learning. Leo worked as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, so I got to play with every type of ...