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Bozak, Inc. 1963-1979
The beginning: A dream come true.
This really isnt a blog. Its just some of my recollections over the almost 17 years I was
associated with Bozak. As time and space, as-well-as my memory, permit, Ill add to this story
of a young mans dream come true and the twists of fate and destiny that none of us can
predict. Time permitting, Ill add some photos from back in the days that we called The Golden
Age of Audio.
I had just graduated from tech school where I studied electronics for 4 years. All through the
late 1950s, and during the time in tech school, audio was my main hobby. I had already built
several loudspeaker systems and a few different preamps and stereo power amps, but this
day in June of 1963 was to be different than just hobby enthusiasm.
It was after the factory shift had gone home as Rudy Bozak and I walked through the quiet
speaker shop. He was interviewing me for a job as technician/draftsman and asking all sorts of
questions about my hobby activities. I was expecting to be grilled about my technical
education, but he didnt seem to be very interested in that. He wanted to know about everything
I had done on my own. He explained to me that ever since his employment with Cinaudagraph
Corporation, where he served as chief engineer, that audio experimenting had been his only
hobby as well. We walked the darkened shop, stopping here and there while he would
sporadically pick up a loudspeaker component and hand it to me, asking, and do you know
what this is? By the time we returned to his office, I was feeling pretty proud of myself having
not missed a beat during our little Q & A session. On his desk sat an N-10102 crossover. It
was a convertible crossover designed to be strappable for various impedances and crossover
frequencies, a foundational requirement the Bozak method of building and upgrading your own
system. He slid it across the desk and asked if I knew what it was. I saw the two inductors and
the three sets of output terminals and immediately responded, Well, it looks like a 3-way
crossover probably 6 dB per octave. A big smile came over his face as he proceeded to
describe the flexibility of the device. We parted that evening with a handshake and a promise
to call me after he interviewed some other applicants.
It wasnt too many days later that Rudys sales manager (and production monitor), Phil, called
me to tell me to report to work after the summer shutdown, the first week of August.
My first day at work for the (then) R.T. Bozak Mfg. Co. was to assemble a prototype product for
the newly established commercial line of speakers, the upcoming concept in public area
sound, columnar loudspeakers. I was shown the entire operation which consisted of the
speaker assembly shop, the machine shop where the magnets were fabricated, the furniture
shop which was massive and completely self-contained, and the final assembly area where
the speakers met the cabinets. The entire facility kept about 60 people very busy. I was
assigned to the lab with a gentleman who, at that time was the resident chief engineer. We
spent the next several weeks running axial response and polar curves in the anechoic
chamber. The Bozak lab was a very complete laboratory, having several areas of
specialization. There was the obligatory acoustics area with anechoic chamber and racks of
test equipment, the electronics area for prototyping various circuit designs, and a section for
spot checking crossover components such as the Q of crossover chokes and ESR of
capacitors. There was a well-stocked chemistry lab and a small mechanical workshop. One of
the most intriguing areas for me was the physics section where we routinely weighed driver
components down to the milligram level, spot tested magnets for gap density, measured
voice coil temperatures during over drive conditions with a thermocouple, examined our own
cold drawn ribbon wire under a microscope, and specified driver parameters in terms of linear
travel, BLI product, compliance, and all the other factors required for system design prior to
the standardization of the universally accepted Thiele-Small parameters.
Having never worked in a real industrial lab, I was learning a lot. It was about this time I was
starting college. Since I had a full time day job, I elected to attend college nights. My days were
about 18 hours long, so I got to sleep 6 hours minus the homework time. This is a schedule
only for the young. One thing that I remember well is how I knew my way around the college lab,
having been with Bozak for only 6 weeks, and getting to work with all this great equipment.
It was sometime around Thanksgiving, I had been with the company about 3 or 4 months when
I arrived one Monday morning to discover that the chief engineer had been let go. When Rudy
arrived, he explained the conditions of that particular separation and told me that, you are in
charge now you answer directly to me.
I was, at once, elated, frightened, and sad. I really felt bad for the guy who was my mentor and
friend during those all too short months. But at the same time, somewhat bewildered as to my
future. Could I handle this? My immediate supervisor was one of the giants of the very industry I
had longed to be a part of my brain was in overload.
But it gets better. Sometime that fall I attended my first IHF audio convention. Wandering the
booths of the Hotel New Yorker with Rudy Bozak, I met some of his cronies; Paul Klipsch, Joe
Grado, Saul Marantz, many of the McIntosh Labs clan, the Stanton and Pickering crews, some
guys from Utah Speakers, Electro-Voice, Jensen, ESL, Shure Brothers, Bogen, JBL, Altec
Lancing and other notables whom escape my memory. I must tell you that sitting in the hotel
lounge with Mssrs. Bozak, Marantz, and Klipsch was a memory I shall never forget My gawd,
and I was only 18 years old!
The World's Fair
One morning Rudy came to me and asked me to travel to Brewster, New York and pick up
some plans. When I returned to the office, he and I sat down and went over the proposed layout
for several pavilions for the upcoming 1964-65 Worlds Fair in new York, most notably, the
Vatican Pavilion. My first assignment was to help him develop a ceiling mounted loudspeaker
that would provide a full hemisphere of audio with reasonably flat response at any angle. It
was to be omnidirectional within a half-space. Considering that we were dealing with 8 or 9 of
the 10 audio octaves, and knowing the physics of dealing with wavelengths from 30 feet to
fractions of an inch, I felt that we pretty much had an impossible task ahead of us. Rudy
thought otherwise. About 6 weeks, and several iterations later the CM-109-2 was born.
I just had my first lesson in physical acoustics and the nature of reflected sound. Another
lesson he unwittingly taught me was that the difficult takes a little while, and the impossible
takes a little longer. The next task was to build and wire the power and control console and
racks for the Vatican Pavilion. We used McIntosh amplifiers, Altec mixers and several hundred
feet of interconnect patch panel wiring. I hoped none of my wiring was faulty, for to find a bad
run or connection amongst the bundles of coaxial cables would be a nightmare-in-the-works.
But the angels were with me errr us the NYWF 64 was a great success for Bozak.
Over the next 2 years, we took on many special projects. Rudy loved to experiment and put our
brains through some serious exercises. Remember, these are the days of pencil, paper, and
slide rule no calculators. Ironically, many of the special R&D projects were funded by
taxpayers money, since these were usually governmental requests.
One of the more challenging was the requirement for an ultra sonic radial compression horn
driver that was flat (+0/-6 dB) from 10 kHz to 40 kHz for a company who thought sonar was a
better approach to police speed guns than radar. B&K supplied us with a condenser
microphone that was flat out there for our R&D program. Each voice coil, of 40 gauge aluminum
wire, was hand wound by me in the lab. It was a slow tedious process, but we delivered the
drivers on time for testing. In the final analysis, it turned out that harmonics of highway noise
gave false readings at the receiving transducer. It was a futile plan as Rudy anticipated, but
business is business. Its difficult to appreciate a speaker you cant hear, so Id occasionally
test them by catching a house fly and restraining him/her in a bottle. I found that by sweeping
through various frequencies, up there in that ultra sonic octave, that I could variously make the
subject fly very annoyed or very subdued. That was noted in my lab book.
Another project was for the US Navy Department. We had to design a submarine woofer for
inter-vessel communications. Much of this was shrouded in secret veil so I can only imagine
the other uses. It turned out to be a 12-inch aluminum cone epoxied to a 3-inch voice coil motor
and a 16-pound magnet structure. The front of the driver was covered with a latex diaphragm
for protection. All components were either anodized aluminum, plated steel, or stainless steel.
The center net (spider) and edge suspension (surround) were bakelite impregnated phenolic.
The device would handle several hundred watts of RMS power, continuously, at room
temperature. The compliance-to-mass ratio was very high and on a half-space baffle it was
fairly flat from 90 Hz down to below 30 Hz. Of course, under water it was an effective pump
down to 1 Hz!
One other project worth mentioning was the Shaker. It was basically a B-199A motor with an
inverted aluminum cone fixed to the voice coil. Picture an ice cream cone sticking out of a
speaker basket. The apex of this cone has a small platen to which various miniature devices
could be fastened. Depending on the frequency and excursion, the customer could subject his
various devices to predetermined G-forces. Again, I dont know much about the end user it
was Uncle Sam again.
Vietnam Interruption
Speaking of which, President Johnsons Vietnam situation was escalating and at the age of 20,
I had the draft breathing down my neck. I elected to join the US Army in the tradition of my dad
and many of my uncles. I enlisted for 3 years with a guarantee of schooling with the Signal
Corps and Air Defense Command under NORAD and CONAD. The third year I decided to
volunteer for Vietnam rather than take pot luck with a reassignment. That landed me in the
Fourth Infantry Division up in the Central Highlands of that otherwise beautiful country just in
time for the Tet Offensive. All during that time I corresponded with Rudy, his wife Lillian, and a
few of the office folks. It was nice to hear what was going on in the real world.
Back Home: Chief Engineer
Upon my discharge in the summer of 1968, I visited the factory at 587 Connecticut Avenue in
South Norwalk, Connecticut. Rudy immediately offered me my job back, but this time as Chief
engineer. The company was changing from The R.T. Bozak Mfg. Co. to Bozak, Inc. But other
things had changed, too. In my absence there had been a couple of other chief engineers, none
of which were still there he didnt tell, I didnt ask. Bozak, in conjunction with CM Labs
(Chou/Morris) had created the first of what was to be a long line of mixers, power amplifiers,
and integrated units.
Eventually we built another department for electronics assembly and testing and CM Labs was
phased out of the picture. From there we designed the CMA-6-1, CMA-10-1 mono mixers, then
the stereo versions, CMA-6-2 and CMA-10-2. Our power amps covered the range of 50, 80, 120,
and 150 watt versions, then later in stereo configurations.
The Thumper
Sometime around 1970, a well known American car maker called us looking for a transducer
that was reasonably flat from 20 Hz to 20 kHz and capable of 120+ dB at 1 meter for indefinite
periods.. Their intended purpose was to test new car models for BSR (buzz, squeak, rattle).
They would roll the vehicle on to a net of aircraft cable with the speaker below it, facing up.
Then theyd subject the car to various frequencies, transients, and power levels. We had a
meeting with some of their engineers and told them we had a system that would probably meet
their spec and measured +/- 4 dB from 11 Hz to about 19 kHz. This was Rudys famous 8-
woofer Thumper (called Big bertha in 1953). We decided to upgrade his two-decade old
design with components which were tougher, add a second midrange, and a more robust B-
200y array. They immediately ordered two of them. Rudy cautioned the chief engineer of the
testing facility that high energy audio, particularly at the lower frequencies, can affect human
muscles and other tissue, and, in fact, there was a whole science of acousto-physiology that
they should understand. He cautioned that when the Thumper was in use, no one should be
allowed in the anechoic chamber with it.
Sometime later we received a call from the chief. Apparently someone did not heed our advice
and entered the chamber at the wrong time. His muscles were definitely affected by the high
energy audio. Luckily it wasnt his heart muscle, but rather his bowel muscles. The report
stated that he left the test chamber a bit soiled, but with bowels cleanly evacuated.
Chambers! If you have never been in a true anechoic chamber, then you have never heard
quiet. For some people, it can be a bit unnerving when you hear the blood flow through your
temples. After the Army, we built a new, bigger sound room. The shell was 20 x 18 x 12 as I
recall. It was a room within a room with a 3 barrier of air between. The wedges were 3-foot
thick fiberglass. The room was still quite adequate down at 20 Hz.
One BIG speaker!
Right next to my lab desk was a speaker that would never see the inside of our new chamber.
It was the old Cinaudagraph Corporations 30 driver that Rudy worked on for the 1939 Worlds
Fair in New York. High power speakers always released a little extra serotonin in my head
this was no exception. That behemoth was actually a 450-pound electrodynamic magnet with a
huge, heavy cast iron pot covering the windings, and a forged eye bolt affixed at its center of
gravity, with a 30 basket mounting the 27 cone. The voice coil was 8 diameter, as I recall.
That speaker was delivered just days before. My prototype machinist and I had welded up an
angle iron frame, with dolly wheels, to support and display the monster. Rudy was proud of that
thing, and I could see why. We did play it once. I forget the DC power supply requirements, but it
was high voltage and considerable amperage. I drove it with a Mac 2300, feeding the aluminum-
wound voice coil in small, judicious increments. It was amazingly efficient as it blasted out
Muskrat Ramble from an LP I had on my desk. Hi Fi? Nope. Loud? Yup. That was fun. Every
time I mentioned that afternoon, Rudy would smile.
My Favorite Cabinet Design
The early 1970s were a very busy time. In 1968 and 1969, I designed the Mediterranean line of
furniture. I was quite proud of that and had only minor changes imposed on my original design. I
will qualify the word "I" since it was Rudy and me that visited several furniture stores making
sketches of various "Med" pieces and their tooling details. Anyhow, as I recall, there were
about 54 pieces of wood in each cabinet, plus the black iron scroll work.
I had some experience doing this kind of thing since my beginning with Bozak furniture styles
of Early American, Colonial (never produced), Italian Provincial, French Provincial, Century,
Modern, Moorish, and Urban, which all were professionally designed. I cannot lay claim to many
of the things I would have loved to play with, particularly those early Bozak models, which I
think were quite elegant. But I did get to document all the bits and pieces of those earlier styles,
on the drafting table. Most of my creative contributions to them were hidden, in the form of joint
design, tooling fixtures, drill and routing jigs, assembly procedures, and specialty miter joint
We finally got into ROCK 'n' ROLL
Somewhere along the way, my never-ending needling caused Rudy to give in to my rantings
and allow us to design products for the rock market. Rudy would resist it, but occasionally
would spin a bit of Simon & Garfunkle. he also liked a little of BS&T. Heretofore, every show,
demo, and exposition we ever did involved the playing of classical music concert music. "It's
the distinguished thing to do." he'd remark, with the faintest little smirk on his lips. This was
before the CES shows, when we only showed at AES and IHF conventions. I cant tell you how or
why the barriers finally dropped, probably because he figured the time had come, but we did
finally get to demo jazz and some mild-ish rock. This immediately led me, with free reins, and
Rudy's personal blessing, to scurry to the drafting board and design a bulletproof speaker
system for "all this loud electronic music," as he would say. I came up with the Monitor C, a
virtually indestructible, very loud speaker system. At the first AES showing of it in New York,
Rudy proudly dubbed it The Sledge.
Two Giants
It was sometime in the mid-70s when Saul Marantz joined us as a consultant. Saul and I
became quite good friends. Saul was not an engineer he was more than that. He was a
visionary, an artist, and a very accomplished musician. He drove up to the shop most every day
from his home in Queens New York. I really cant tell you his resume at Bozak except for his
guidance and advice in many of the esthetic details of some of our products. Saul and Rudy, on
the road together was a real crowd maker.
Can you Dance?
With the increased interest in club activity and the threat of early disco we designed the still
famous CMA-10-2DL and the CMA-6-2S. These were designed for the new industry of clubs-
with-DJs. Interestingly, the 10-2DLs are still showing up on eBay.
The speaker line continued to grow as well. The Senora was upgraded. The Rhapsody and
Tempo was added along with the Concerto. Of course the venerable B-302A, B-4000A, and
B310A (and B), B-410, and B-4005 remained in various configurations and furniture styles.
A New Tweeter
We had been experimenting with a curvilinear tweeter diaphragm for more than a year. It was
to be the model B-200Z. The conical diaphragm of the B-200Y was made of 2-mil dead soft
aluminum, hardened with a clear anodize coating, then damped with a flash of black latex. As a
diaphragm, it was critically damped and produced a true mass-controlled response curve
which resonated at about 1.8 kHz and then fell off at 6 dB per octave until the wavelengths
reached the diameter of the voice coil (.75), at which point the aluminum voice coil dome
became active, resonating at about 12 kHz. The problem with the potentially superior B-200Z
was manufacturing a suitable rear dampener. We eventually had an open cell latex foam part
molded which worked consistently. The cone forming dies were somewhat problematic, but in
time we fixed that as well. The new Z tweeter, as it was called, was vastly superior to
discerning ears and we began to receive accolades from the beta sites around the counter
that we selected. By the summer of 1974 its design was finished. But the manufacturing
change over wasnt as fast as expected and the Z didnt get (officially) released until around
the end of summer 1975, maybe 1976, as I recall.
My Own Business
But Ive gotten ahead of myself. By the fall of 1974 the disco movement had gotten serious. I
had received offers to design systems for various clubs around the country, beginning in
Detroit (naturally). I talked to Rudy about the very full-rounded, and complementary, line of
products we had developed over the past 12 years, and how they were naturals for this new
disco thing. He agreed. I told him that I, like himself, thought I owed it to myself to venture out
and see what I could do on my own. He gave me one of those smiles of approval. This was a
first for Bozak. I was to be a free-lance dealer with no geographical restrictions. Whatever I
sold to a club got shipped to the site with me as a middle man. It was a little adventurous, a lot
frightening, but it payed superbly.
By early 1977 I figured that the disco market had been saturated as things began to taper off
and the dollar bills werent flying quite as freely. I returned to Bozak as a full timer. Another
chief engineer came and went in the meantime. I dont know the circumstances nor did I ever
ask. I was back at my Chief Engineer's desk.
My Job Changes (The Beginning of 'Not So Much Fun Anymore')
Since the product line now included the 900-series of home electronics, a very well rounded
home speaker lineup and a very comprehensive commercial, public area electronics and
speaker (columns) catalog, Rudy thought it best if I continued my quasi-sales, a la the disco
venture. He reinstated me as Chief Engineer, but wanted me to travel and visit the reps and
dealers part time. The products were becoming more specialized and hi-tech - he felt that the
dealers and reps needed more guidance, especially for some of the larger venue installations
of our commercial products. When I was in town, my job was to entertain visitors. We had
really expanded our market place with importers in England, France, Italy, Germany,
Switzerland, and Japan to name a few. Our little office was always busy. It was a lot of work. By
now, Saul Marantz had left - both gents were senior citizens anyway. Rudy had openly
confessed that I, and who ever was the sales manager at the time (we had many) would have
to carry the ball.
That meant more late night dinners with guests from all over the globe lots of martinis, lots of
travel, lots of going to bed after midnight. I had one foot on the slope and I knew it.
Empires come and go.
In less than half a year, I learned that Rudy was planning on selling the business. I organized a
committee consisting of one of his relatives who worked there, the accountant, the purchasing
agent and myself. We were going to see if we could raise enough money to do the buy-out. But
the process lagged and our combined capital became questionable. In time Rudy sold to a
venture corporation.
Beginning of the End for Me
The new guys (no names) released many of the original employees, including some Bozak
family, having brought their own with them, and relegated Rudys desk to a dark, dusty corner
in another building. I talked to him about that. He indicated that he would stay on partly as a
hobby and partly to advise the new guys, He mentioned to me that he hoped they wouldn't
"screw up the place." They kept me on as Chief Engineer (that was to be a mistake for both
parties). I think it was because they knew I had many of the secretsand probably because
Rudy put in a word for me. The same responsibilities held for me as before. Lots of travel, late
nights, and martinis with faceless foreigners. I was slipping off firm ground. The playboy life-
style, possibly combined with some Vietnam-induced insomnia, turned me into a machine. I
functioned, but not with my head and heart it was all so mechanical. I was constantly sick, no
appetite, no sleep, and an occasional insulin over run from acquired hypoglycemia and I
wasnt doing what I was supposed to be doing, designing audio stuff!
Later in 1977 I left the company and pursued a more reasonable life-styleback to consulting.
My health returned to normal in short time.
Rudy Calls
Then, in about 18 months, early 1979, I received a call from the new owner asking me to return.
He wanted to freshen up the consumer lines. I said "No." That night, Rudy called me and told
me that he and I could do a lot of good for the "new guys" and make a decent income as well. I
loved Rudy, like a father, but my heart wasn't in it. I told him I'd try it, but I wasn't up to all the
traveling, entertaining, late nights, etc. And if he (the new owner) would chain me to the lab, and
not push me back into sales, I'll give it a shot. The corporation offered me double my old salary
- I hoped this might work. I returned, but with weights hanging from my soul. I wondered, How
could this have gotten better.
It didnt.
A Real Downer
Entering the same old building that captured my heart 16 years earlier was a dismal
experience. The lab, my wonderful lab, was gone. All that precision equipment was either sold
or stolenno one was talking. The product line included non-Bozak drivers, OEM drivers from
somewhere offshore. The test equipment outside the anechoic chamber was in disrepair ...
some of it just plain missing. The new company had brought in some good people, beside me,
there was only one technical guy - this one fellow impressed me (no names), but the
corporation wasn't playing the old game. Over the next few weeks, I witnessed enough fast-
handed maneuvers so familiar with corporate America that I couldnt assimilate. It was all so
depressing. The once giant of all things good and holy in the audio business had melted into a
corporate money mill. Management-types with little or no understanding of the business had
come to play ... and make cash. Eventually the other shoe dropped, when i was asked to do
some more of the old stuff; traveling, entertaining, and morphing back into the nocturnal
playboy. I did for a short while, but this wasn't for me. I had words with the president and, he
fired me just as I quitto this day, am not sure which it was. Sad and discouraged, I left before
the end of 1979.
Caveat to other Employees
I have seen blogs of certain individuals who came after me, in those dark years after the 1977
takeover and on into the early 1980s. I have read their accounts of what they think Bozak
was especially concerning the new companypost Rudy. Well, just as beauty is in the eye
of the beholder, I suppose reality can likewise suffer subjective distortions - especially when
they didn't know how it was when Rudy was at the reins. The thing I do know is that some of
them tried ... they really did, and I could see that.
I certainly would not disparage any of my successors. I know that most of themespecially the
technical few, under the influence of the corporation, did put their collective hearts and souls
into maintaining the product quality, freshness, and honesty. And I certainly will not tell you that
anything made after 1977 was bad. In fact, in those 4 years or so, there were some very nice
products developed, especially in the compact and bookshelf systems. There was one
gentleman that I met in those last days who was very sincere and working in earnest for
survival with the new owner. He has a story on the Internet also, and I empathize with many of
his words. Id like to thank him for his fortitude and the many honest and sincere coworkers I
had all those years.
I lost track of Bozak once the company moved from Norwalk, to upstate Connecticut, and then
with the tooling being acquired by NEAR, so I cant comment on subsequent products.
It Was a Great Ride...
Well, not all stories have to end sadly, and it was not my intention to paint this one as such. The
Bozak empire was just that an empire for at least 25 years Ill say 1952 through 1977, a
very golden quarter century. But things happenthings changethings that I may not like may
be just fine for someone else.
Am I bitter? No, not at all. The one thing I always remember is that nothing stays the same.
Things change. I love capitalism; I think its Natures way in the survival scheme for humans.
And sometimes the pure and idealistic things we hold so close and dear become tarnished in
the eyes of the purist.
So where am I now? Well, Im a survivor. At 61, Im still in the audio business, almost 44 years
later, happily designing commercial audio products for another company, and offering back
everything I had the privilege to learn, from the best there ever was. Thank you for everything
you taught me Mr. R.T.B.
I would also like to thank all those individuals who keep the memory of "The Very Best in
Sound" alive, through all their hard work here on the Internet ... thanks guys.
Me at age 20 at the equipment
rack outside the upstairs
anechoic chamber
Here I'm at the reactance bridge
testing an inductor.
Checking the weight of a wool
woofer cone - it better be 38
Measuring the flux density of a
woofer, 6-pound magnet.
Me in the QA dept. with some of
our visiting Japanese importers.
Omni sound: The hallway to the
Vatican Pavilion at NYWF-64, 65
Rudy in 1953 with "Big Bertha,"
later tagged "The Thumper." Rudy
and I upgraded this system with
dual B-209B midranges utilizing
double magnets (12 Lbs) and
silver-epoxy assembled B200Z
tweeters for higher heat
dissipation. There were also a
few special horizontal versions of
this model made for commercial
The Monitor C loudspeaker
system was my contribution to the
high-power world of the 1970s.
This was our first full-hearted
offering to the rock 'n' roll market.
"The Very Best in Music"
Bozak Home - Outside the Factory
........faster than the speed of dark..............
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I had read these years ago and some of this we at wave once discussed when Scotty was alive. Even though these are large web sites that the articles came from there are other ex Bozak employees in their 70s and early 80s still alive today that did not remember things quite this way. Also over the years a lot more so called facts have been added to those articles I guess to enhance them and make them appear more detailed and authentic. Here is more reading that came from two ex employees who are both elderly but alive today and were employed as design engineers at Bozak. I have no reason to disbelieve these following notes as these two gentlemen had nothing to gain by making something up when asked about Bozak in 2006. These few items make for some interesting controversy.
#1 this is the exact quote that came from one of the ex employees who spent most of his life (1965-1989) with the Bozak organization. This was sent to me when asked for comments about several articles in 2006. At that time he was in his mid 70s.
"I am not saying that anyone is a liar but CMA as I recall was a small German /American engineer and design company located, I believe, in Darien Connecticut. I can't remember what the initials stood for after all these years, but it was not for any Japanese or Chinese manufacturer like the web page you sent would like you to believe...
Rudy originally recommended McIntosh Amplifiers for use with his speakers, due to their Damping Factor, and they recommended Bozak Speakers in return. Rudy had no interest in manufacturing electronics, but in the early 1950's McIntosh changed the damping factor on their new amplifiers and Rudy felt they could no longer do justice to his Concert Grand speakers. He decided he would have to have an amplifier designed to his needs, and together with personal friends at Commercial Manufactured Audio South Norwalk Connecticut (more likely the CMA designation on products) drew up the specifications for the new amplifiers. Several models were designed and manufactured but the big work horse developed was called the CMA-2-150. It was a stereo 150 watt per channel bridgeable amplifier. All of the actual design work was done in Germany, and resulted in a way overbuilt, massive professional power amp at the time.
All the Bozak professional electronic CMA series units that included models like the CMA10-1, CMA10-2, CMA10-2D, CMA10-2DL, and etcetera were designed by the same German company and manufactured by Bozak in Connecticut. Even at the end we were still using many German components. No Japanese or Chinese company as far as I know ever had any input for Bozak branded products. We did however use special manufactured to our specifications items that were produced in Japan. One in particular was the custom made stereo 50k million cycle Alps brand potentiometers. The further enhancements to the CMA 10-2DL series mixer were all designed by me after the company's first sell out in the mid 1970s. I made sure everything I did remained true to the standards and vision of the industry genius I first met with his family in 1949, then not knowing that I would continue his work years later. Most of the key people in the company when I became the chief engineer were people who had worked under Rudy. He was an irascible, hot tempered perfectionist when it came to his products or business. Heaven help any worker who left a tool sitting atop one of his hand rubbed speaker cabinets. Even threw all this everyone spoke of him warmly, and all had great Rudy stories to tell.
He was truly a genius, once while I read through his detailed old research notebooks; I suddenly realized that he was actually doing Fourier Transforms in his head. I sat there stunned. I believe there may still be some original documents on file to verify the existence and input of Commercial Manufactured Audio in the design of Bozak products. I will try to locate the original paper work as soon as I have some extra time."
#2 this note came to me from one of the company's later owners.
"Bozak was split up when we closed it. Our marketing manager Bill Kieltyka, purchased the speaker side and opened up shop in his home state of Maine, but not using the Bozak name. Bill operated under another brand name, NEAR for New England Audio Research. We sold him all of the original equipment from the speaker division so he could be faithful to the original speakers. He eventually went out of business.
Don as you know was the majority owner of Bozak and sold the Bozak name, but nothing else to someone in Europe sometime in the 1990s. They put the Bozak name on their own products but never had access to the actual Bozak electronic designs. Because they only got the name, it would not be accurate to say we sold them the electronics division that died with the Bozak Company when we closed our 45,000 square foot plant in New Britain, CT. Don and I were involved together in a number of business ventures for 23 years from 1973 through 1996".
#3 here is another interesting reading found on the web. Most of the timeline dates seem correct except 1971 to all knowledge should have been 1974 and the D not DL mixer.
Bozak History Timeline:
1960 - Rudy Bozak registers Bozak MFG.
1963 - Bozak manufactures mono broadcast mixer.
1971 - Bozak manufactures the first commercially made Stereo DJ Mixer, the CMA-10-2-DL.
1977 - Rudy Bozak sells Bozak MFG company and retires but continues to work as a consultant for Bozak Inc.
1978 - Bozak trademark registered to Bozak Inc, who continued to make loud speakers.
1982 - United Recording Electronic Industries (UREI) cloned the Bozak CMA-10 mixer.
1983 - Founder Rudy Bozak dies.
1986 - Bozak Inc sold off.
1989 - Bozak engineers Buzzy Beck and Paul Hammerland continued manufacturing with small-scale production of electronics until costs for the new HB-1-8 spiral forcined all Bozak mixer production to cease in June of 89.
2006 - February, Paul Morrissey former Product Manager at Vestax Corporation and Soundcraft starts Analog Developments Ltd.
2007 - The new Bozak brand is launched at WMC in Miami and the ISO-X isolator goes on sale in the late summer of 2007.
2008 - The launch of the first new Bozak mixer, the AR-6, in 20 years accompanied by the EQ-6 channel EQ module.
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Here is some info on C/M Labs and their involvement with Bozak.
I copy and paste this bit.. Wayne talks about Bozak and C/M Labs
"I read with interest the review on Rudy Bozak's Concert Grands in the October 2005 issue. I had no idea that so many audiophiles where still tracking some of the vintage equipment – I had left the business sometime in the later part of the '60s. The only reason I came across this forum was because it was time for me to find a home for my own two Concert Grands which were given to me by Rudy in the mid 60's (I am not aware of the magnet change later, but these must be alincos). And naturally, my pair would have been the first to have been bi-amp'd – but I still have the original crossovers, if someone would want to put it back the way it came. After that, Rudy finally offered bi-amp versions for sale.
I was co-founder and president of C/M Laboratories, Inc., (a contraction of the names Chou and Morris) and I had invented, and eventually patented, an output power transistor circuit that was impervious (for the most part – nothing is perfect) to short circuits and other transients (mostly from the bass of music – and if you like Bozaks, you were sure to pass a lot of heavy bass just to feel it in your body). Technically, power transistors were susceptible to a phenomenon known as "secondary breakdown". Later RCA pirated the circuit and marketed it in a hybrid chip. And HH Scott, published a paper about how his amplifiers would not blow up (describing my invention without giving me credit or my permission to do so, either). Since I was very enthusiastic about sound reproduction, this circuit found its way into our first power amplifier, the 35D, which produced conservatively 50 watts rms/channel, with very low distortion, for its day. In developing the amplifier, I sought Rudy's help – borrowing loudspeakers from him, as well as exchanging amplifiers for speakers when we went to shows and exhibits. Rudy and I became good friends. Through the four or five years that I was president, I had designed many amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, as well as combined units both for the consumer market as well as for the professional sound reinforcement and recording studio monitor market. I should add, that while Rudy designed the front panel of the CMA-10-2DL, and specified all the features he wanted in it, it was I who designed all the electronics for it, and it was C/M Labs who built it for him, hence the designation CMA. But he did supply the panels and the punched out chassis, as we specified it.
Though Rudy's speakers were known mostly by the audiophiles in the consumer market, by the time I got to know him, most of his speaker designs had not changed – only, more or less, cosmetically. Most of the joint effort that we spent our time on was in promoting his commercial line of column speakers as well as helping him get started in the amplification end of things. We did joint projects – his speakers, along with our rack mounted amplifiers and pre-amp/mixers, at Lewison Stadium, West Point, SUNY, the New York Philharmonic trailer in Sheep Meadow at Central Park, various benefits with Benny Goodman, and so forth. It was the experience of a lifetime I will never forget. Although Rudy Bozak could be tough in business, he was a kind, gentle, and generous man. I will forever miss him.
I am still thinking of finding a home for my Concert Grands. So if anyone wants a pair, or knows of someone who wants them, please let me know. The first home I had for them sat them in a room 30 x 40 with a 12 foot high plaster ceiling. It is true – that they need the space for one to be able to appreciate their voice. They are currently being driven by my 35D for the mid and upper end, and a 911 (100 watts/channel) for the woofers, using a C/M Labs switch adjustable electronic crossover (of which very few were made – bi amping was not too popular, or well known, at the time). Still, after 40 years, I haven't found a system I like better. Stood the test of time. But of course, my hearing isn't what it used to be. Still, I get that great concert hall sound from the Concert Grands, never favoring one instrument over another, or making anything sound exaggerated or unnatural. The bass is tight, as it was too boomy and sloppy being driven by the usual tube amp. But it is not a matter of whether driven by tubes or transistors, as most non-technical people would try to romanticize the reasons, but rather by design of what is practical when using tubes or transistors. It just is easier to design an amplifier having output impedances where they are naturally there to begin with. Damping factor is the primary reason why transistors have that edge on controlling the loudspeaker, circuit-wise. Years ago I presented a paper on the importance of damping factor, and how it affects sound quality. Rudy and I proved that to ourselves through the many listening tests we made together. That was an exciting time for us. Eventually, he used our amplifiers exclusively for his own personal use and demonstrations, setting his McIntosh? amplifiers in storage. Today, everyone realizes that using heavy speaker cable will improve audible definition over using thin hookup wire. You cannot fake physics.
As a final note, C/M Laboratories, Inc. went the way of most everything – it was sold off to other investors who carried the line for a few years after the acquisition. We enjoyed a reputation up with Marantz and McIntosh?, but the Japanese imports were hot after US business. They had better finished panels, better control feel, all around better styling. The only thing that they didn't have at the time, was the ability to reproduce audio at the highest level. But they were close, and catching up. At the same time, I was concentrating on developing a new FM tuner – I was warned that it would probably break us. And it did. But what a tuner. We had 25 orders from a show at $1095 (retail) a pop – FM tuner only, no preamp, no power amp. But it was the first consumer programmable digital readout (Nixie tubes) tuner, that did not require tuning (a crystal controlled synthesizer – unheard of in a consumer product, in those days), all solid state circuitry, linear phase bandpass filters, and a new all solid state linear detector (no discriminator to add harmonic distortion) – all specs (capture ratio, stereo separation, distortion, selectivity, 3rd order intercept, etc.) to exceed anything else on the market then including the famed Marantz 10b, the target to beat. The prototype/breadboard had been tested by a couple of reviewers, so we knew we were on the right track. Unfortunately, we couldn't fit it all in a reasonably sized box (of all things), and production delays of all sorts kept delivery from coming to fruition. It was the closing bell to C/M Labs as we knew it. Thanks for listening."
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vinyl junkie I seen that article also many years back. In fact that was the one that was forward to me to look into in 2006. My #1 post was addressed to that article by the person I stated is now near 80 years old and was with the company from the mid 1960s. Granted he was not there in 1960-1964 but he was personal friends with Rudy and his family from the 1950s and was giving his remembrance to the best of what he recalled prior to him becoming the chief engineer of the electronic not speaker division in 1965. As he stated to me at the time he was not saying anyone was a liar only that he remembered it quite differently. Just because the people I discuss this with years ago were not interested in setting up a large web site and posting all sorts of history timelines does not mean it was not a possibility to the CMA story. Keep in mind that most Bozak equipment used German components and that might make you wonder about the reference to a German/American company. When I asked Mr. Beck to answer this in 2006 he would only say that he owned early 60s up schematics and paper work and none actually indicated if they were done in house or by another company. All old paper work gives credit to CMA and not CM and that really does not tell us anything about what it stands for either. Rudy Bozak owned 50% of the Allen/Bradley Company yet in 1977 Bozak went to Alps to design the million turn black pots later used by UREI. Who really knows what is actually correct about CMA. You could tell people for years that you owned the company and if printed enough times on the web and was contained in so many archives people would probably believe it. All I am saying is there is a possibility that some of the large web sites could be mistaken a bit to make history favorable to them. By the way I found some interesting reading about Bozak on Micks Music Page from years ago also. It might be worth the time to read. I have several other interesting notes I kept from other original Bozak persons I will post here shortly for everyones enjoyment and consideration. I know several of them said they may have old factory photos. I will try to get a hold of them and post if possable.
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Thanks for the info Captainjr, certainly made for interesting reading. I'm all open to this debate
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vinyl_junkie did you notice how Wayne stated that he left his CM/Labs company in the late 1960s and also designed all the electronics in the CMA-10-2DL. Reality is the DL did not come about till late 1976 as Mr.Beck stated with the dated original design schematics showing "approved by______" and no name signed. He told me this meant it was done in house and did not as of that date have engineers approval. When I talked to the head engineer who was personal friends with Rudy and was there from 1975-1989 and signed off on the design sheet for the DL mixer, he told me Rudy had nothing to do with the DL at all. In fact Rudy was trying to find a buyer to get out of the company all together. I am not saying Wayne wasn't involved in the DL but here again maybe he could be a little confused or I am reading his article wrong?
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In a photo album that I scanned from my aunt there were several pictures over 2 pages that were labeled "I.C.B.U. convention, Kingston, Aug. 19th/13" I can't find out which "Kingston" this was and I haven't (yet) been able to find out where the ICBU convention was held in 1913. One of the pictures was also labeled "Saint Patrick's Hall," but that didn't yield anything either. Kingston is a popular city name and Saint Patrick...well...Irish patron saint...need I say more?
The only book I was able to find so far on the ICBU was a 1953 print dissertation by Sister Joan Marie Donohoe, S.N.D., M.A. from the Congregation of Notre Dame de Namur of Belmont, California. It was submitted to the Catholic University of America as a requirement for her doctor of philosophy degree. One of the books I need to dive into after I return my newest pile of library books. Hopefully, it will help me better understand the pictures in this family album from my Quirk ancestors.
The very bottom picture was particularly interesting. My Irish ancestors at an Irish Catholic convention of some sorts (and by looking at several of the pictures a parade was held) and there's a British flag. Knowing the tension between the Irish Catholics and the British Protestants I can only suppose that someone was looking for conflict.
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Dear Sister Madeline:
The old transport is taking the water very good. The sea has been rough at times but not as rough as it generally gets. Did you receive my post card? Well we left Camp Stuart May 17th but did not leave the port until late Saturday as we got stuck the water was to shallow. It took thirteen tugs to pull us out after being their for about ten hours. May the 19th my birthday was spent very nicely.
Please excuse the my change of ink as I started this letter on the 23rd and ran short of ink but as long as you receive this letter through the aid of our brother sailor I don't think it will make any difference. All I did Sunday was to wish that I were home. I would sit on the deck and look out to the big waves toward home and say well boys their's no place like home. Although the eats are great and nothing to do but sit around and every now and then see something new. The second day out we saw one shark and just yesterday we saw three whales and a school of flying fish. Well dear sister now the tide changes to a bit of adventure.
After messing yesterday (by the way we only get to meals a day but they are great) I happened to stop and watch the sailors boxing when the order came of a abanding ship. Then our ship with about eight other ships 6 transports, 1 cruiser and one torpedo boat destroyer started firing. After holding our position for about 40 minutes we were dismist. Some say it was a submarine but I think it was nothing but a box or a log. The Navy is not taking any chances and anything that looks like a sub is shot at. Up to now I have taken the trip very good I haven't had anything accept a headach and that was from sleeping down in our compartment.
Sea sickness hasn't shown itself on our boat as yet but I suppose before the trip is over many a boy will throw his head over the railing. I heard the captain of the ship say that we were the roughest lot of men that he ever took over. On his other trips the hospital has at all times been filled up. He also said all we do is get on the mess line then come back and steal bread from the bakery. I must admit dear sister that my hand helped to steal some bread as it was so tempting and my appetite is getting the best of me.
I haven't as yet had the opportunity of being mixed up with the cooties as some of the boys have but when it comes to sleeping with rats not those field rats but those that come from the boat and are about eighteen inches long. They are getting to familiar with me; they only come around when I sleep. We are due to hit the war zone tonight and our new convoys are expected to meet us.
I know dear sister that you are anxiously awaiting a letter from me theirfore I am trying this way as the sailor looks honest and theirfore I think he will carrie this letter back to U.S.Soil. The boys just told me that we past a U.S. transport that was homeward bound. Oh what I wouldn't give to be home once again but be it as it may I feel that your brother will soon come back as the boys say I've got a huntch. Must close now dear sister as I really do not know what else to write about. How is pa and all the folks home. Kisses and love to you all. Am going to write Anna.
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"Getting close by going far away,
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'Departed – In the Company of Strangers'
The ineffable sadness of departure – of leaving, of death – is mirrored more and more in the work of Mike Baker (SL: Rollo Kohime) who has used Wellington Railway Station both in Second Life and in Real Life to show that we, as human beings, can occupy, two separate spaces and times in one mixed reality.
Baker, a noted improvisational contact dance exponent, is to showcase his latest work at two events on the same day at the SDHS Conference 2009 (Society of Dance History Scholars) – Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies at Stanford University – in California and Second Life, between 2.00pm and 3.30pm (Pacific time) on Saturday, June 20, 2009.
He wont be there in person but will make both presentations as Rollo Kohime, in Second Life.
The first is a paper presentation on his AUT Masters project, "In the Company of Strangers" (Abstract Title: In the Company of Strangers – Negotiating the parameters of Indeterminacy; a study of the Roaming Body and Departure in Urban Spaces) from his Wellington Railway Station build on Koru.
Later, between 5.30pm – 7.00pm (Pacific time) , he will participate in a round-table discussion with a shared presentation and question time (conceived by Isabel Valverde), Yukihiko Yoshida and himself.
The title is, "Dancing in Second Life: A roundtable – "Envisioning Virtual Topographies for Corporeal Interaction: dance and performance convergent applications of the Second Life 3D Metaverse social environment."
Yoshida`s input has the title, "Real Dance and Dancing in metaverse : from the activity by INETDANCE Japan," while Baker's is titled, "The Human Analogue in Mixed-Reality."
Following the presentations the panel will be asked, "How might dance work be created around the premise that we as humans can occupy, simultaneously, two separate spaces and times in one Mixed Reality?" and " 'Belonging' in Mixed-Reality?
Meanwhile Baker has had a paper selected for the '"Time, Transcendence, Performance" conference at Monash University, in Melbourne, in October.
Recently he also had one of his works, focusing on Second Life and mounted on dance-tech.net, presented at the Artist Salon at Chez Bushwick ,in New York. The work, 'A Facet of the Real?', is a study combining his Real Life video work projected in his Second Life Wellington railway station. It was shown along with works by the New York City Ballet and Troika Ranch and a number of other outstanding international contemporary pieces.
Jaki Levy, a media artist and new media consultant in the USA, said after the "performance": '"A Facet of the Real"explored how performance in "first" life and Second Life can intersect, creating a trippy situation in which a live performance is viewed in real time by online avatars in a virtual venue."
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The 2012 American Film Market (AFM) wrapped it's October 31 - November 7 run on Wednesday with an increase in buyers of 6% to 1,616 versus 1,523 a year ago and 35 more buying companies than 2011, an increase of 5%. A total of 753 buying companies from more than 60 countries were present this year. The AFM Conferences, which launched in 2011, spoke to large audiences of more than 700 in attendance each day. Exhibiting companies at AFM were on par with last year at 357.
"The healthy growth in new buying companies is the most important metric for us," said AFM Managing Director Jonathan Wolf. "It shows that the global marketplace for independent film is continuing to expand."
Regions with more buyers at the market included Asia (up 14%) and Latin/South America (up 17%). Among individual countries, Japan and Korea had the largest increase for buying companies, with Korea (up 26%) and Japan up (23%).
Attendance among exhibitor-affiliated participants (including their executives, producers, talent and guests) concluded at 3,069.
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From Montgomery, Ala., comes the sad, shocking news:
Taco Bell tacos' "seasoned ground beef" is mostly not beef.
The Montgomery law firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles is suing the fast-food company for false advertising after attorneys had the Taco Bell "meat mixture" tested and found it contained less that 35 percent beef.
The nation – which until now had considered a Beefy Crunch Burrito™ stuffed with Flamin Hot™ Fritos™ and slathered in nacho cheese sauce to be part of a nutritious diet – is appalled.
So what exactly is Taco Bell "meat"?
"Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate."
"Polysaccharide absorbed as glucose." Mmm-mm.
But look at ingredients #3 and #8 – isolated oat product and oats. Nothing wrong with oats, is there? Oatmeal is a significant sources of dietary fiber, which helps lower LDL (bad) cholesterol. Any doctor will tell you that oats are better for you than red meat.
So while Taco Bell may be fudging on their "ground beef" with cheap filler, that filler could actually be healthier to eat. Taco Bell could be doing its customers a favor by deceiving them.
Anyway it's got to be healthier than this:
It's not delivery. It's frozen pizza AND cookies or chicken. Available at supermarkets starting Monday.
UPDATE: Taco Bell statement regarding class-action lawsuit:
"At Taco Bell, we buy our beef from the same trusted brands you find in the supermarket, like Tyson Foods. We start with 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. Then we simmer it in our proprietary blend of seasonings and spices to give our seasoned beef its signature Taco Bell taste and texture. We are proud of the quality of our beef and identify all the seasoning and spice ingredients on our website. Unfortunately, the lawyers in this case elected to sue first and ask questions later — and got their "facts" absolutely wrong. We plan to take legal action for the false statements being made about our food."
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Evolastin can help tighten skin without surgery
Anti-aging procedure uses bipolar radio frequency
Anti-aging technology constantly develops, and among the newest includes a procedure to make patients look about 10 years younger -- without surgery.
Joy Macaluso, 56, has always taken good care of her skin. She stays out of the sun, and admits to having several chemical peels, but she felt like it was time for a little something extra, but not as serious as surgery.
"No, no, I didn't want to go to surgery at this point, but he said to me, 'I think, topically, you've pretty much maxed everything you can do,"' Macaluso said in reference to her dermatologist, Dr. Robert Weiss.
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Before the procedure, Macaluso said she felt "anxious, nervous, excited -- all of them, all of them."
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Joy has had some numbing fluids put under her skin for the treatment, and at that point, she was ready to go. The needles go just 2 to 3 millimeters into the skin, and the tiny pinholes left behind will last for 24 hours or so.
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"(In) the area of the jaw where it started, you can feel the thickening around the bone, and it has moved up," Macaluso said. "So, it has got to go all the way up and fill in the cheeks."
Macaluso said she's expecting more good things to happen in the coming months.
"I really feel that if in the last six weeks it has done this, it will definitely in the next three months continue and do what it is supposed to do," Macaluso said.
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The first major phase of renovations at the Hotel Bellevue-Terminus, which first opened in 1898, was completed between May and November 2011. The south wing with previously 57 rooms was completely gutted and has been replaced with a contemporary interior. The building services and all the safety requirements are now once again state-of-the-art. The acoustics have also been taken into account with a five- layer floor structure, and the thermal insulation boosted with triple-glazed windows.
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