About the Authors
Dave Berriman (Chapter 25) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook.
Richard Brice (Chapters 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, and 28) is the author of Music Engineering. He has combined a career as composer, music arranger, and producer with a management career in the broadcast television business. He is currently President of Miranda Technologies Asia, based in Hong Kong. He taught Sound Engineering as a Visiting Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and is the author of three books and many articles about television and audio.
Don Davis (Chapters 2, 3, and 22) is the co-author of Sound System Engineering, Third Edition. Davis is the co-founder of Synergetic Audio Concepts, USA. Don has received a Fellowship Award from the AES for his work in sound system design and audio education.
Ben Duncan (Chapters 8 and 24) is the author of High Performance Audio Power Amplifiers. Duncan is a prolific British polymath audio scientist/researcher, independent electronics engineer; manufacturing trouble-shooter; music technologist; author (900+ articles); electronic and audio product designer (200+), including high-end audio kits; and inventor, inspired by a very wide range of music. As a landowner, Duncan has created organic gardens, a nature reserve, and parkland with 2000 trees. He organized a rock concert in 1974; today, music events are held in the park. Duncan’s audio designs are recognized for engineering finesse and exceptional sonic qualities, with equipment he co-designed and also his own bespoke units being known across the diversity of “high-end” hi-fi, recording studios, show production, and by many astute musicians, sound engineers, academics and physicists. As senior engineer at BDResearch, he operates highly-resourced test labs, with hundreds of restored legacy instruments used to make new discoveries. See BDResearch’s websites and 1100+ 3rd-party websites and forum mentions.
Stan Kelley (Chapter 23) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook.
John Linsley Hood (Chapters 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16, and 30) is the author of Audio Electronics and Valve and Transistor Audio Amplifiers. Linsley Hood was head of the electronics research laboratories at British Cellophane, for nearly 25 years. He worked on many instrumentation projects, including width gauges and moisture meters, and made several inventions which were patented under the Cellophane name. Prior to his work at British Cellophane he worked in the electronics laboratory of the Department of Atomic Energy at Sellafield, Cumbria. He studied at Reading University after serving in the military as a radar mechanic. Linsley Hood published more than 30 technical feature articles in Wireless World magazine and its later incarnation Electronics World. He also contributed to numerous other magazines, including Electronics Today.
Peter Mapp BSc, MSc, CPhys, CEng, FIOA, FASA, FAES, MinstP, FinstSCE, MIEE (Chapter 29) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook. Mapp is a principal of Peter Mapp Associates, an acoustic consultancy based in Colchester, England, which specializes in the fields of room acoustics, electro-acoustics, and sound system design. Peter holds degrees in applied physics and acoustics and has particular interests in the fields of speech intelligibility of sound systems, small room acoustics, and the interaction between loudspeakers and rooms. He has authored and presented many papers and articles on these subjects both in Europe and the USA. Peter is well known for his research into speech intelligibility and its measurement and developing new measurement techniques in relation to room acoustics.
He is a regular contributor to the audio technical press, having written over 100 articles and technical papers, and is a contributing author to several international audio and acoustics reference books.
Allen Mornington-West (Chapter 15) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook.
Eugene Patronis (Chapter 2, 3, and 22) is the co-author of Sound System Engineering, Third Edition. Patronis is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He has also served as an industrial and governmental consultant in the fields of acoustics and electronics.
Douglas Self (Chapters 10, 12, and 13) is the author of Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook. He is a senior designer of high-end audio amplifiers and a contributor to Electronics World magazine
Ian Sinclair (Chapters 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, and 29), author of Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook, was born in 1932 and educated at Madras College, St.Andrews and then at the University of St. Andrews, majoring in chemistry. In 1956 a fascination with the hobby of electronics led him to a post of junior engineer with English Electric Valve Co. (in Essex), where he was researching vacuum electron-optical devices. In 1966 he moved to the position of lecturer in Physics and Electronics at Braintree College, and began writing articles and books on electronics and computing. In 1983 he resigned from college to become a freelance author, as he still is today.
Andrew Singmin (Chapter 4) is the author of Practical Audio Amplifier Circuit Projects. He currently is a Quality Assurance Manager at Accelerix in Ottawa, Canada, with over 25 years of experience in electronics/semiconductor device technology. Singmin has written for Popular Electronics and the Electronics Handbook, as well as Beginning Analog Electronics Through Projects Second Edition, Beginning Digital Electronics Through Projects, Modern Electronics Soldering Techniques, Dictionary of Modern Electronics Technology, and Practical Audio Amplifier Circuit Projects.
John Watkinson (Chapters 1, 14, and 17) is the author of Introduction to Digital Audio, Second Edition and was a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook. Watkinson is an international consultant in audio, video, and data recording.