Peter Bartók Interview

Originally published in audioXpress June 2006, this interview by Paul Stamler is a unique document detailing the work of Peter Bartók (Budapest, July 31, 1924 – Florida, December 7, 2020) as a pioneering recording engineer and one of the best of the early LP-era engineers, involved in remarkable recordings with his New York City label Bartók Records, and working with Moses Asch’s Folkways Records. He also worked with Caedmon Records, a pioneer in recorded poetry, as well as disk-cutting for early-era Elektra Records and other small NYC area labels.

This article describes a spreadsheet program for designing low-voltage power supplies using common IC three-terminal regulators. The spreadsheets are in standard Excel format, and should work in just about any spreadsheet program. Each file has two main pages: one for use with common variable-output regulator chips, the other for fixed-output devices. This article was published in audioXpress, March 2010.