Hi Everyone,
I have been lurking on this site for quite awhile since my friend, Rich Hollis (Hollis Audio Labs) is very active.
I am the cofounder, CEO and lead designer at Danville Signal.
I have been designing high end audio for a long time.
In 1975, I met Frank Van Alstine who I know is active on this site. I was in engineering school at the time. I learned a lot of techniques that year on how to make circuits perform better and more importantly, Frank taught me how to be a critical listener.
I think this is incredibly important for audio designers. If you can hear what's wrong, you can ask yourself, what contributes to what I am hearing and make adjustments.
In 1976, I invented the split passive phono preamplifier that was used in the Van Alstine Model One preamplifier.
Somewhere around 1990, I started my first DSP project. Since that time I have designed a lot of DSP based boards, mostly using Analog Devices' SHARC DSPs where I am fairly confident that I have the world record in number of designs by an individual.
In my view, the SHARC is the gold standard for Audio DSP.
I like to think that my strength as an audio designer is that I have both strong analog and digital signal processing skills which need to be combined to make SOA products in this space.
When I participate in forums, I try to stick with facts and not indulge in too much hyperbole. I certainly hope you will consider our products, but I leave "It sounds (fill in opinion)" to our users.
Al
