Harry Olson interview from 1975 (RCA)

[emrr]

hadn't seen this posted before; an interview with RCA's Harry Olson from 1975:

http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/pdfs/Olson026.pdf

 

[lassoharp]

Here's an updated link:

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Harry_F._Olson

good reading

 

[1954U1]

Thanks both, very nice reading.

 

[emrr]

Another very interesting RCA engineer interview:

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Irving_Wolff

 

[lassoharp]

That was like a couple of mini-movies!  Great stuff.

Doug,  Have you any info in your vaults supporting his statement regarding Hi-Fi being advanced by

'amateurs'?

 

[emrr]

not specifically.  lot of anecdotal stuff out there.

 

[sahib]

That was like a couple of mini-movies!  Great stuff.

Doug,  Have you any info in your vaults supporting his statement regarding Hi-Fi being advanced by

'amateurs'?

It will take me some time to find where I read it but in two seperate occassions well respected (old time) designers made that comment. Simply due to amateurs being fearless to experiment. My comment would be their love and loyalty to the technology.

However, this notion refers specifically for the valve technology. Solid state would never tolerate that if one did not know exactly what he/she was doing. Hence latest advancements in this technology such as D-class amps carry the signatures of designers such as Bruno Putzeys.