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At the early age of eight Dick knew he wanted to design electronic equipment. Inspired by his father Henry Burwen, who once worked in a radio store, he
second class radiotelegraph licenses and had built his amateur radio station, W1NMG. During his high school years in Melrose, Massachusetts Dick
and Dick worked for a year after school at National Company Inc. aligning and troubleshooting the Navy version of the HRO short wave receiver.
second class radiotelegraph licenses and had built his amateur radio station, W1NMG. During his high school years in Melrose, Massachusetts Dick
and Dick worked for a year after school at National Company Inc. aligning and troubleshooting the Navy version of the HRO short wave receiver.
Dick started designing the equipment for his current sound system in 1962 and in 2018 it was finiished. His 'preamplifier' occupies 3-1/2
because they were obsoleted by his new computer digital signal processing system. The small discrete component operational amplifier cubes in the
The first unit designed was an automatic lighting controller that responds to the music. Mounted in a half-rack outside the left edge of this photo, It
yellow. The control circuit boards were redesigned for improved performance in 1982, but the silicon controlled rectifier power stage is the same as it
horn with a pair of 2440 compression drivers delivers sound between 400 Hz and 6 kHz. An array of 30 Cerwin-Vega tweeters reproduces sound from 6
24-inch Cerwin-Vega sub-woofers for frequencies below 50 Hz.
The active crossover network equalizes the speakers. Dick spent a year tweaking its frequency response so that a recording of his son, Russell,
because they were obsoleted by his new computer digital signal processing system. The small discrete component operational amplifier cubes in the
The first unit designed was an automatic lighting controller that responds to the music. Mounted in a half-rack outside the left edge of this photo, It
yellow. The control circuit boards were redesigned for improved performance in 1982, but the silicon controlled rectifier power stage is the same as it
horn with a pair of 2440 compression drivers delivers sound between 400 Hz and 6 kHz. An array of 30 Cerwin-Vega tweeters reproduces sound from 6
24-inch Cerwin-Vega sub-woofers for frequencies below 50 Hz.
The active crossover network equalizes the speakers. Dick spent a year tweaking its frequency response so that a recording of his son, Russell,
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