About Me

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About Me

I caught the audio bug early… at church of all places. Dad led the music and had me helping with the P.A. system. Started wandering through the mid ‘70s SoCal stereo stores like Pacific Stereo, The Federated Group, RogerSoundLab, etc. checkin’ out the gear. In ’79 I walked into a little shop in Westminster called Audio Today (still there) and discovered the “High End”. I’ve been cruising down this highway ever since. By H.S. graduation I was grooving to a Dual TT with Ortophon cartridge, Nakamichi cassette deck, NAD 3140 integrated amp and DCM Time Windows.

Right out of high school I went through Golden West College’s Recording Engineering program (just a few years after Robert Harley passed through) then received a scholarship from Azusa Pacific University to be the School of Music’s concert sound engineer and run their recording studio. Got to tour all over the U.S. and Canada doing concert sound mixing for APU’s 125 voice choir and 40 piece orchestra. While in graduate school I worked at a mega-church in Irvine (South Coast Community) as their lead sound technician running four services a week in a 2000 seat hall with full rhythm section, 80 voice choir plus lead & backup vocalists.

Professionally I work in Human Resource Management for the Automobile Club of Southern California and am an adjunct Professor of Management for BIOLA University. I still run live sound a few time a month at church as I’ve done for over 30 years. I also help my buddy’s bar band get their sound system dialed in as they play some of the ugliest sounding lounges in O.C. I serve on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, which simply means I’m one of the dudes who shows up early and helps set up and run the meetings/events.

My Audio System

As of July 2011:

Analog: VPI TNT V / Graham 2.2 / SoundSmith/Denon DL103. Battery powered PhonoClone.

Digital: Onkyo CD/SACD/DVD-A with battery powered DAC chip and Lundahl transformer outputs. Battery powered Squeezebox SB3 with DynamiCap analog output.

Preamp: Sony TAP9000ES multichannel linestage.

Speaker System: Bi-amped VMPS RM30s. Mid/Tweeter ribbons driven by 50w Quicksilver monoblocks. Woofers crossed over with a Behringer CX2310 analog crossover and driven by VTL 100w monoblocks.

Subwoofer System: Three Velodyne 8” passive subs across front & side walls and two Avalanche 15” sealed passive subs on back wall. EQ’d with a Behringer digital parametric and driven by a QSC pro power amp.

Center/Surround system: Hypex digital amps driving Magnepan MMG-C & MMG-Ws.

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United States

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