Member Profile: Pierre Touzelet

Location: Vélizy-Villacoublay, a neighborhood in Paris, France Education: Aerothermal Mechanical Engineering Occupation: Pierre worked as a technical director in an engineering company that designs and sets up large vibration systems and acoustic rooms for environmental tests. He retired in 2008. …

Virtual Soundcard Gets An Update Audinate recently improved its Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS) software for Windows. The DVS software enables your PC or Mac to connect your favorite audio application directly to a Dante audio network. DVS uses your computer’s …

Innovator Continues to Test the Limits of Kable SHANNON BECKER: Tell us a little about your background and where you live. RAY KIMBER: I live in Roy, UT, a suburb of Ogden, UT. I have always been interested in electronics …

Tube Amplifier Design Brothers collaborate on a new audio system with a classic look SHANNON BECKER: Tell us a little about your background. Where are you located? Where and what did you study? ADAM CLARKSON: I have been working in …

For the May issue, we elected to print several essays in memory of Ed Dell in lieu of the regular New Products and News section. This column will resume in the June issue.

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. …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …