Preface

There are two worlds in audio—one of wave equations, Fourier, Hilbert, and Laplace transforms, and the other of Ohm’s Law, Sabine and Hopkins Stryker. Eugene Patronis, Jr., straddles both like a colossus, as he is able to theorize in Quantum Mechanics and design, build, and service, with his own hands, all components used in audio.

Pat Brown is our new co-author and brings to this volume unique tools he has developed in the course of his loudspeaker testing, particularly directivity measurements, into the twenty-first century. He has taught Syn-Aud-Con seminars all over the world in person as well as through his internet training programs. He is a longtime friend of both Dr. Patronis and Don Davis, and like them, a man who delights in ...

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