Bill Dudleston
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Bill Dudleston is the president and founder of Legacy Audio, an audio and home theater equipment manufacturer located in Springfield, Illinois, United States. As a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Dudleston has been inducted into a regional Hall of Fame and is also listed in Who's Who of American Businessmen.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Dudleston graduated in 1981 from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.[3] He is an inventor/patent holder of numerous circuit topologies and acoustic alignments.
Dudleston and Legacy Audio specialize in 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 approach to business practices, customer service and technology were highlighted in Tom Pettsinger’s The New Pioneers.[4] He has published articles on acoustics and loud-speaker design. He also authored Reinforcement, Resonance, and Reverberation: Fundamentals in Sound Control.[5]
Dudleston has designed and provided Legacy speaker monitors for Arista, Sony, Universal Music Group and archival organizations such as the Stradivari Society. Producers Rick Rubin, Antonio L.A. Reid, and mastering engineer Herb Powers have utilized the Legacy designs to assist in producing artists Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mariah Carey, and Usher. Re-mastering engineer Steve Hoffman utilized Legacy Audio speakers on re-issues of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.[5]
Legacy Audio and Dudleston have been cited in publications such as Billboard, The Wall Street Journal, Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, Home Theater Magazine and the Robb Report. Currently, Dudleston continues to serve as an innovator in the areas of DSP, digital amplification and wave-launch reconstruction while directing Legacy Audio’s research and development program.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ On your mark, get set, scope out the competition USA Today, February 14, 2001.
- ^ EX-CHEMICAL ENGINEER BUILDS DREAM, HIGH-END AUDIO SPEAKERS St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 12, 1995.
- ^ "LinkedIn".
- ^ Petzinger, Thomas (1999). The new pioneers : the men and women who are transforming the workplace and marketplace (First ed.). Touchstone (published 2000). ISBN 978-0684863108.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
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