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Tribute to Ed Dell: Jan Didden

Spreading the Gospel of DIY I first contacted Ed Dell in the 1970s when I submitted, with great trepidation, an article for publication in The Audio Amateur. But Ed wasn’t the stern editor, making go/no-go decisions behind an impressive desk. …
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Tribute to Ed Dell: Gary Galo

Minister, Mentor, Intellectual, and Friend Like so many in the audio community, I was saddened to learn of the death of my friend and mentor Edward T. Dell, Jr., in late February, just two weeks after his 90th birthday. Ed …
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Tribute to Ed Dell: Chuck Hansen

Gracious, Generous, and Supportive I first got in touch with Ed Dell in 1997 to propose a preamp construction article based on the HeadRoom headphone amp module. Not only did he graciously accept an article from a perfect stranger, he …
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Tribute to Ed Dell: Richard Honeycutt

Furthering the Art of Fine Audio On February 25, the audio world lost a great visionary and leader, Edward T. Dell, Jr. I first became acquainted with Ed soon after I graduated from college in 1970. A longtime electronics/speaker/audio hobbyist, …
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Tribute to Ed Dell: Nelson Pass

Magazines Kept DIY Audio Alive Suppose you could say that if Ed Dell had not been around for the past 40 years, the audio DIY community would have had to create him. I doubt anyone else could have done better. …
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Tribute to Ed Dell
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Tribute to Ed Dell

Edward T. Dell, Jr. 1923-2013 When Edward T. Dell, Jr., founder and former Audio Amateur publisher, passed away in February, editors at audioXpress asked themselves this question: How do you celebrate the life of a man who single-handedly did more …
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Project Spotlight: Electronics + Wood Fab Speakers
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Project Spotlight: Electronics + Wood Fab Speakers

MIT graduate student David Mellis is interested in how designers are combining high-tech parts like microcontrollers with low-tech materials in clever ways. Yesterday, I pointed everyone to Mellis’s inspiring 3-D Printed Mouse project. Now let’s look at another creative design—Fab …
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A Workspace for Radio & Metrology Projects
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A Workspace for Radio & Metrology Projects

Ralph Berres, a television technician in Germany, created an exemplary design space in his house for working on projects relating to his two main technical interests: amateur radio and metrology (the science of measurement). He even builds his own measurement …
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Seven-Controller EtherCAT Orchestra
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Seven-Controller EtherCAT Orchestra

When I first saw the Intel Industrial Control in Concert demonstration at Design West 2012 in San Jose, CA, I immediately thought of Kurt Vonnegut ‘s 1952 novel Player Piano. The connection, of course, is that the player piano in …
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