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Posted by Romy the Cat on
01-23-2021
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Yes I have heard the sad news. over the course
of the last few months various people contacted me and told me that he did not
do good, he was in nursing home and his health was deteriorating. This all my
due to express condolences to his close friends and family I would like to make
a few words in context of the site. I didn't spend a lot of time with Bruce,
just a half of dozen meetings and there was one where we spent together almost
two days. It was impossible not to enjoy Bruce as he had very rare in the field
combination of modesty and kindness and competence in the same time. And so
industry it is always a rule that any capable person should be a jerk
there are very very few exceptions and Bruce was one of them.
Anyhow returning back to assessing a relation between Bruce and the site. One
of the biggest accomplishments oh Bruce was that sometimes in '80s he took a
very interesting position. He stated that what we as a society know about horns
loudspeakers is well known but it is actually not what it might be. This is
extremely simplistic and not revolutionary statement but in reality it is
incredibly loaded statement. And that times there was certain publicity of the
horns and single and the trios in Japan and Germany but they mostly hunted for
legacy implementations. And then Bruce show up and stating that all legacy
implementations are not bad but they might be significantly better and he began
to build quite elegant and quite comprehensive theory what this new horn
approach might be. He did not formulated it as I finalized theory but he rather
keep it as a intuitive public know-how revelations. So, from certain
perspective, anybody who come high-end Audi and horns in '90s, included me,
we're just direct derivatives of the inspirations that Bruce conceived. I
personally did not learn a lot from Bruce but I rather was learning a lot from
people who learn from Bruce. In the one way or other anything which exists
today in a high-end audio horns universe in one way or another use Bruce's
ideas.
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