@jmkrajnik
Do you have experience in designing sound equipment? Your comments are unusually insightful.
Unfortunately, no! My dad did not own an engineering shop, so making tonearms and turntables were out of the question. A dozen research scientists were working on loudspeaker designs at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which gave rise to many British loudspeaker startups, such as Harbeth, Rogers, Spendor and KEF. Later you really needed access to laser interferometry laboratories and anechoic chambers to be competitive. KEF in particular use a lot of computer modelling which does interest me. That seems like 99% perspiration!
The 1% inspiration would have to have been the brilliant Peter Walker at Quad, with his valve and solid-state amplifiers, and ground-breaking electrostatic speakers. The mathematics in his published papers are way beyond me! He was an electrical engineer, through and through. He famously said Quad left actual listening to its customers.
