- Bill Dudleston
Bill Dudleston is president and founder of
Legacy Audio , a high end audio and home theater equipment manufacturer located inSpringfield, Illinois . A member of theAudio Engineering Society and theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers , Dudleston was recently inducted into a regional Hall of Fame, taking his place among mid-western Nobel scientists and statesmen. He is listed in Who’s Who of American Businessmen. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/entre/2001-02-14-entre.htm On your mark, get set, scope out the competition]USA Today , February 14, 2001.] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB083128FF42AAE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM EX-CHEMICAL ENGINEER BUILDS DREAM, HIGH-END AUDIO SPEAKERS]St. Louis Post-Dispatch , June 12, 1995.]University of Illinois graduate and inventor/ patent holder of numerous circuit topologies and acoustic alignments, Dudleston has pioneered controlled directivity loudspeaker designs, wave-launch coherence in low frequency radiators, dynamic braking in active speaker design, selectable directivity multi-way microphone arrays, feedback eliminating stage monitors, and isolated wall-mounting methods for in-wall/on-wall speaker systems. His innovation in business practice, customer service and technology is noted in Tom Pettsinger’s The New Pioneers. Dudleston has published numerous articles on acoustics and loudspeaker design. He also authored Reinforcement, Resonance, and Reverberation: Fundamentals in Sound Control. [ [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26028555_ITM] ]
Bill Dudleston has designed and provided Legacy speaker monitors for Arista,
Sony ,Universal Music Group and archival organizations such as the Stradivari Violin Society. Multi-Grammy award winning producersRick Rubin , AntonioL.A. Reid , and renowned mastering engineer, Herb Powers, have utilized and publicly touted the Legacy designs as assisting in producing artists Sheryl Crowe,Johnny Cash ,Tom Petty ,The Red Hot Chili Peppers ,Mariah Carey , and Usher. Re-mastering engineerSteve Hoffman has utilized the Legacy speakers on re-issues ofElvis Presley ,Frank Sinatra andNat King Cole . [ [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26028555_ITM] ]Legacy Audio and its founder have been cited in publications such asBillboard ,the Wall Street Journal ,Stereophile ,The Absolute Sound , Home Theater Magazine and theRobb Report . Dudleston continues as an innovator in the areas ofDSP ,digital amplification and wave-launch reconstruction while directing Legacy Audio’s research and development program. [ [http://www.mywire.com/a/SensibleSound//1859256?extID=10051] ]References
External links
* [http://www.legacyaudio.com Legacy Audio]
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