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About DNA My interest in music, audio, and engineering goes back as far as I can remember. I attended college at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Applied Science. While a student, I investigated many areas of audio including several projects in James Boyk's course "Projects in Music and Science", EE/Mu107. Projects include research into binaural hearing and recording, dipole-room interaction, dipole baffle modeling, and enclosure resonance analysis. While in college I knew then that I wanted to be an audio design engineer. After graduating my first job was with Boston Acoustics in 1995 as a transducer engineer. In the fall of 1995 I moved back to California and joined Aurasound as a transducer and speaker systems engineer. During these years I also worked part-time on weekends at Acoustic Image. This gave me the unique opportunity to not only see the "audio world" from an engineers and manufacturer's perspective, but also from the retail side. In the summer of 1999 a friend, who I met at Boston Acoustics, recruited me to work with him at Harman Multimedia, on projects for Apple which included the iMac. During that time Aurasound changed ownership and asked for me to come back. So in the summer of 2000 I returned to Aurasound and have worked with them since. Today I hold the position of Engineering Director. I was the program manager and lead design engineer for their 513, 794, and 992 series of woofers, regarded by many listeners as the best sounding woofers made. I am the inventor of 2 United States patents: In 1994 during my consideration and search for the ultimate phonograph turntable, I heard for the first time a single ended triode (SET) amplifier. Up until that point, my personal reference was a pair of push-pull tube monoblocks with monitor speakers and dipole subwoofers. The sound I heard from the SETs was markedly better in clarity, purity, and immediacy. I was hooked. From that moment I began my search for the best sounding high-efficiency loudspeakers available to partner with these amplifiers. I auditioned many home audio and pro audio speakers of all designs, regardless of price. My conclusion: I could not find one that sounded like a "normal" speaker with the efficiency "turned up". So I made the decision to develop my own high-efficiency loudspeaker in 1995. This pursuit ultimately led to the invention of my patented quad midrange/tweeter array and development of my DNA Sequence loudspeaker. Never ceasing my personal quest for the best sound, I auditioned components from around the world and discovered some excellent European products unavailable in the USA. Knowing that other people would appreciate these units, I founded DNA in 2001 to import the Audio Synthesis Passion Ultimate remote passive preamp, the Airtangent airbearing linear-tracking tonearm, and Bremen No. 1 D/A converter. Later with the discontinuation of these products, I shifted the business focus of DNA to exclusively develop and manufacture hi-fi products of my own creation. Each model is carefully designed to provide exceptional fidelity and lasting musical enjoyment, the latter of which I believe being the true purpose and goal for hi-fi products. Listen for yourself™.
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