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View Full Version : The amplifier designer hall of fame (part #12) – Julian Prendergast Verreker



Neil McCauley
26-02-2016, 09:56
Editor McCauley in conversation with Howard Popeck:

More?


More! Well, I never met Julian Verreker. Because of my public loathing for the Linn ‘culture’; he and I would never have seen eye to eye. It wasn’t to be. However he was a self-taught designer. That’s gotta mean something, right? I took a few of the ammunition-box NAP 250s in exchange for the mighty Meridian 107 power amps and against Krell and so on. Frankly I really liked the sound of those 250s. I really did. And I had a few NAITs traded in too. That first NAIT design was a cracker. Really was. So yes Prendergast is a sort of design-hero for me.

Prendergast?


Yup. That was one of his two middle names. Charles was the other. Prendergast designed boats. The Windex I believe. You gotta admire someone who had the vision to kick the UK audio industry hard in the arse and yet was happier – apparently – sailing.

Which leads us neatly to Linn.


Does it?

Continues @ http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/02/12189/