[ToneLux]

Originally posted by Mr. Fancy Pans
Regarding my comments of Deanne Jensen, I met no disrespect at all. I spoke out of turn, what was told to me by one of the early Quad Eight engineers I interviewed for this article. Since then several engineers have called me to set the record straight on this particular individual.

It's an interesting history of the audio world.

Larry DeVivo

The history of all these companies in those days were all intermixed. The Mecore guys then to the API guys, some split and went on with Quad 8, then to this and that. The real question is if the Melcore guys brought the 2520 to API, or were they fired for sexual harrassment and had to find other jobs and didn't know how the 2520 worked? Were the guys that left API and went to Q8 a good thing or a bad thing, or were they draftsmen or test guys? Did Dean ever see an op-amp design before the 990 or did he wake up one morning and say "i'm going to change the world". Did Rupert design the discrete op-amp or did one of his engineers? Did I really invent Post-its? Who invented the Pan pot? Was it the guy who left company A and right after he joined company B they came out with it? Coinsedence or Conspiracy? Maybe one of them was actually on the grassy noll. I heard that one of the guys from Mackey was the photographer that took the original fake movies from Area 51 during the moon landing...

We should construct a family tree at one of the AES shows, and let anyone come by and add to it. That would be fun. Of course, we may find out that they all came from one place in the beginning...

But, it still wouldn't answer the questions of when and where the technology was passed on or invented from. This will always remain a secret, and maybe it is best that way, because some of the best around didn't really invent anything, they just empowered others to do their best and to reach inside their hearts and come up with something that they thought was "better".

Now I want to buy everyone a little puppy.