Q&A: Daniel Weiss - Audio Engineer Focuses on the “Masters”

Daniel Weiss founded Weiss Engineering in 1985. The company designs and manufactures digital audio equipment for mastering studios. Daniel graduated in 1979 with a BSEE from the HTL Rapperswil. Joined the Studer Revox company in 1979 as an Electronics Engineer. There he worked on analog anti-aliasing filters, test signal generators, sampling frequency converters and digital audio processing for a two channel DASH recorder. He left Studer in 1984 to start Weiss Engineering. Daniel is a Fellow of the AES and a Member of the IEEE.

Welcome to a new audioXpress. I am really excited to bring the “new” audioXpress to a wider global audience, knowing that we can build on the tradition of the original publication and its diversified audience. We are working to create a magazine you will enjoy and anticipate reading every month.

Whether you’re an audio executive or simply an audio fan, you’ll find everything thing you need to make informed purchasing decisions in the 2013 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook,our annual publication that lists speaker-related companies and their products and services. It’s the …

Shannon Becker interviews Ron Tipton (this article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2013.) Since 1957, Ron directed its own audio enthusiast interests towards its own home-business TDL Technology, Inc (www.tdl-tech.com), based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The many products that were sold on the website were mainly the projects that Ron carefully designed and build, and explained on its many articles for audioXpress (and previously for The Audio Amateur and other titles originally published by Ed Dell).

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audioXpress is all about range—range, in the sense of content diversity. Our international team publishes insightful articles on a wide variety of topics such as speaker design, sound analysis, glass audio projects, and hi-fi product reviews. This month we deliver …

The November 2012 issue of audioXpress features product information about a variety of interesting, well-designed audio gear. Headphones, an amp, a mic, and more are detailed. Cush Headphones Offer Sound Quality, Comfort, & Style KICKER recently unleashed its 39 years …

Each year’s “speaker special” issue is a favorite among audioXpress readers. This 2012 edition features in-depth articles about speaker technologies and design projects, without completely ignoring other interesting topics such as tube amps. This year’s special speaker section features informative articles about a detailed loudspeaker design project and an intriguing electrostatic speaker experiment. We also included a third must-read speaker-related article, but it isn’t in the special section because it focuses on enclosures rather than speaker design.

The September 2012 issue of Voice Coil is now available. The topics covered include CEDIA Expo 2012, a look at Kingstate Electronics, acoustic patent information, industry updates, a test of Faital Pro’s DF371 bullet-type tweeter, and a test of a …

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