About the Authors
Dave Berriman (Chapter 25) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook.
Richard Brice (Chapters 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, and 28) is the author of Music Engineering.
He has combined a career as composer, music arranger, and producer with a management
career in the broadcast television business. He is currently President of Miranda
Technologies Asia, based in Hong Kong. He taught Sound Engineering as a Visiting
Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and is the author of three books and many
articles about television and audio.
Don Davis (Chapters 2, 3, and 22) is the co-author of Sound System Engineering, Third
Edition. Davis is the co-founder of Synergetic Audio Concepts, USA. Don has received
a Fellowship Award from the AES for his work in sound system design and audio
education.
Ben Duncan (Chapters 8 and 24) is the author of High Performance Audio Power
Amplifi ers. Duncan is a prolifi c British polymath audio scientist/researcher, independent
electronics engineer; manufacturing trouble-shooter; music technologist; author (900
articles); electronic and audio product designer (200 ), including high-end audio kits;
and inventor, inspired by a very wide range of music. As a landowner, Duncan has created
organic gardens, a nature reserve, and parkland with 2000 trees. He organized a rock
concert in 1974; today, music events are held in the park. Duncan’s audio designs are
recognized for engineering fi nesse and exceptional sonic qualities, with equipment he
co-designed and also his own bespoke units being known across the diversity of “ high-end ”
hi-fi , recording studios, show production, and by many astute musicians, sound engineers,
academics and physicists. As senior engineer at BDResearch, he operates highly-resourced
test labs, with hundreds of restored legacy instruments used to make new discoveries.
See BDResearch’s websites and 1100 3rd-party websites and forum mentions.
Stan Kelley (Chapter 23) is a contributor to Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook.