[Russell Dawkins]

I stumbled on this while doing a search for Schoeps microphones (!), and thought a number of you would enjoy it:

http://www.meta-gizmo.com/Tri/june/bose.html

[mgalusha]

Beautiful. I wish Harvey was still with us. Certainly someone I would have liked to meet.

[bpape]

Harvey was an interesting bird.  I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times at CES in the 80's. 

I voice of sanity and reason for sure - though a bit odd - but that's not a bad thing.

Bryan

[dB Cooper]

And to think all this time I thought it and the Bose Sound Dock were just glorified table radios with car radio speaker in them. How wrong could I have been.

[TheChairGuy]

Jerry Seinfeld had a stand-up line that went along the lines of....while folks in the rest of the country (US) get more boring as they get older, New Yorkers get funnier and gain more character.

Was there any doubt that Harvey Gizmo Rosenberg was a product of NY 

He was just out there funny, that guy, and funnier as he went along in life.  Too, too young tho - didn't he die at something like 58? 

[Steve Eddy]

He was just out there funny, that guy, and funnier as he went along in life.  Too, too young tho - didn't he die at something like 58? 

Yeah. Died of one of those sudden heart attacks shortly after getting off a plane.

If anybody wants to have some fun, I suggest they set aside a few hours and read through all his articles posted on the Triode Guild page.

se

[jimdgoulding]

What a find.  Thanks, Russ.

[satfrat]

He was just out there funny, that guy, and funnier as he went along in life.  Too, too young tho - didn't he die at something like 58? 

Yeah. Died of one of those sudden heart attacks shortly after getting off a plane.

If anybody wants to have some fun, I suggest they set aside a few hours and read through all his articles posted on the Triode Guild page.

se

Man, that's some deep stuff!    This guy basically makes a joke out the "audiophile perfectionist" who strives for the "is it live or is it Memorex" system when in fact there's just no such thing. Everything an audiophile is actually doing is "toning" his system,,,it'll never totally replicate the real thing. Don't you just love a guy who looks outside AND inside the box? 


Robin

[spud]

Harvey was truly one of a kind. Eccentric maybe but really smart. He is truly missed by all. I own a Bose Wave and it brings us pleasure when the big rig is resting.

  spud

[nathanm]

I remember reading a hilarious story about him from people he knew after his death.  Thanks to the miracle of Google I found it again:



    In the late 1970's Harvey used to

    have this fabulous apartment on Central Park West and he would have these

    fabulous free flowing parties.. It was not unusual to find the most eclectic

    types of people involved in a variety of insane situations and positions..

    After one of these parties, myself, Harvey and a couple of my friends went to dinner

    at a restaurant on nthe Upper West Side.. Harvey came to the dinner dressed in a

    white lab coat that beared a name tag "Dr Harvey Rosenberg" and he carried a doctors bag.

    I sat at the table with him and I excused myself from the table and went to the payphone in the

    rear of therestaurant. I called the establishment and asked them if they could page

    Dr. Rosenberg-- identifying myself as being an intern at Roosevelt Hospital..

    Harvey has no idea it is me until he gets on the phone and we decide to play a major

    joke on everyone in the restaurant.

    He picks up the phone and screams

    "I don't care if she is hemorraghing to death, screw her. i am hungry." and he

    hangs up and goes back to the table. I go back to the table and of course the

    whole restaurant is in shock. I wait five minutes more and go back to the phone

    and he is paged again.. He screams " Screw her, don't call me again-- get

    someone else." Well, the place is an uproar-- a woman comes up to him and says

    to his face " you ought to be ashamed of yourself-- what about the Hippocratic

    Oath you took? Don't you have any sympathy--any compassion? " Harvey looks at

    her and says to her " Madam, I know you. you were in the 1972 Sex Olympics.. you

    were disqualified for having Lock Jaw" That is the Harvey I will always

    remember-- trying to have a little harmless fun and trying to turn the world on

    its edge a little bit.. He certainly did.. He had a heart of gold and a mind

    that penetrated steel. I will always miss him-- why not? he was one of a kind..A

    renaissance man who was also a pisser-- what a combo. Rest in peace Dr. Harvey..

    respectfully,

    Les Borden

Source: http://coneyislanddreams.com/tri/harvey.html

[Steve Eddy]

I remember reading a hilarious story about him from people he knew after his death.

Thanks to the miracle of Google I found it again:

Google ain't the only miracle here.

se

[spud]

nathanm,
              Great story. Only Harvey could handle that.

spud