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Soundsmith History The Soundsmith has existed in Westchester County, New York, for over 35 years. We currently provide audio repairs for many major accounts in the New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey area, as well as equipment shipped to us from all over the world. We are authorized for warranty repair of Audio Research, Revox, Bang & Olufsen, Halcro, DartZeel, Jeff Rowland and McIntosh. We have designed and manufactured varied types of audio equipment for many years, and are dedicated to the finest in audio reproduction.Peter Ledermann - President/CEO/Chief Engineer Peter@sound-smith.com Bob deFreitas - Director of Business Development Harry Rosenblum - Sales & Marketing Consultant Dr. Glen Johnson - Research Scientist Richard Majestic - Senoir Associate Engineer Jeanine Coy - Production Manager, Cartridges and electronic products Michael Evans - Engineer/Technical Trainer Robert Mang - Engineer/Technical Trainer Eric Stablien - Engineer/Technical Trainer Fabian Gonzales - Engineer/Technical Trainer Craig Dick - /Product Specialist & Logisitics Manager - Jeannine Coy - Production Manager, Cartridges and electronic products Jeannine@sound-smith.com
Amy Reyes - Technical Training for audio; Engineering Support & Manufacturing Christina Moreno - Engineering Support and Manufacturing Emanuel Creegan - Engineering & final QC/Manufacturing support Simone Kukla - Production support *************************************** Peter Ledermann (President - Founder) now spends full time at The Soundsmith teaching, inventing and developing new products under the Soundsmith name and by commission. He managed the Soundsmith as a teaching company through the years while engaged in other occupations. These have included The Audio Experts repair center; Design/Production Engineer, RAM Audio Systems, Danbury, CT; Director of Engineering, The Bozak Corp., Norwalk, CT; and Senior Research Engineer at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Center. While in the position of owner of The Audio Experts Repair center, Mr. Ledermann repaired over eight thousand pieces of Hi Fi equipment, and maintained warranty service for over fifteen major brands. He also hired and trained many persons to work for the business, providing high quality service for customers from the tri-state area. While at RAM Audio, he was responsible for the production engineering of high-end power amplifiers, preamplifiers, and a strain-gauge phono pickup system. He was also responsible for the hiring and training of the manufacturing work force, as well as service and laboratory personnel. While employed as director of engineering at Bozak, Mr. Ledermann had the pleasure of working with the founder, Rudy Bozak, an early pioneer in the audio industry. Mr. Ledermann was personally responsible for invention, design and production engineering of all new audio products as well as production engineering of the entire product line. He also re-engineered over 30 of the existing products in Bozak's extensive speaker and electronic line. New products included eight models of loudspeakers and drivers, as well as an analog delay system, a novel satellite/powered mini-subwoofer system based on "Curva-linear" aluminum drivers and unique crossover designs. Mr. Ledermann worked at IBM Research for 12 years in both Physical Sciences and APTL (Advanced Packaging Technology Laboratories). He has knowledge in the areas of surface science technology and IC/board packaging development, ultra-high vacuum systems, high power lasers, automated manufacturing systems, and novel designs for VLSI packaging. He has received IBM's prestigious "Outstanding Invention Achievement Award", as well as numerous other awards, and is the primary and contributing inventor of eleven IBM patents. All Soundsmith employees are personally trained by Mr. Ledermann, and are commissioned with regard to their income. It is to their advantage to repair equipment properly, as they are personally responsible should any piece need additional work. The result is one of the lowest comeback rates in our industry. Over 35 students have "graduated" from the Soundsmith, and have taken their places in the work force, many of them staying in the Hi-Fi field. The primary mission of the Soundsmith is to provide a growing job base in the electronics repair field in parallel with providing practical training and skills through a unique work study program. We strongly believe in the necessity of providing a mentor-apprentice system wherein those who qualify can be supplied the missing link between an abstract education and the necessary skills to become qualified in the field of audio. The Soundsmith maintains relationships with many superb design and service engineers in the audio field due to Mr. Ledermann's 35 year history in the field. Bob deFrietas - Director of Business Development Bob comes to us after many years at IBM; Bob was invloved in marketing and business development for many IBM products over his long career. Although Bob was originally a customer, his love of audio and business forced him out of retirement and into the service of Soundsmith and its goals of designing, manufacturing and distributing unique and high quality audio products. Harry Rosenblum - Sales & Marketing Consultant Harry has 35 years experience in the audio industry, owning his own sales representative firm here in Westchester. Harry represented many high end audio companies during his career, and is well known in the industry. Dr. Glen Johnson -Soundsmith's Research Scientist Dr. Johnson workled at IBM Research for over 22 years, and is considered an expert in numerous fields including optics, software, electronic and mechanical engineering, CAD design, physics, mathematics, machine automation, automated vision systems, integrated micro-optical switching networks for high speed communications and high power laser technology. Richard Majestic - Associate Engineer - formerly Dir. of Engineering at CM Labs, RAM Audio, Voice of America, Sony Design Group, Michael Evans - Engineer/Technical trainer Mike was a master service engineer at Sears technical for 12 years before joining the Soundsmith. He has excellent high end computer skills, and a extensive knowledge of music and recording. He has proven himself over many years at the Soundsmith to be one of our best engineers as well as one of our best instructors, teaching many of us subtleties of failure mechanisms that have added to our knowledge base. Although proficient with all types of audio equipment, he has also contributed to many Soundsmith designs. Fabian Gonzales - Engineer/Technical trainer Fabian is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from Suny University in New York. He has a background in metallurgy from his home country in Chile, and has an amazing aptitude for finding and solving difficult audio problems. He has also proven to be an extremely valuable and competent technical trainer for our apprentice technicians. Although competent with all audio products, he is currently our lead technician for Bang and Olufsen service. Robert Mang - Engineer and Technical Trainer Robert comes to the Soundsmith after a long career in the telecommunications field, and has assisted our company for many years in not only service & training, but with electronic designs for varied Soundsmith Products. Craig Dick - Logisitics Manager & Product Specialist Craig comes to the Soundsmith with skills in the areas of loudspeaker and sub-wooofer design, audio sound reinforcement, logisitics management, production and woodworking skills, and more. We are glad to have him on board. Jeanine Coy - Production Manager, Cartridges and electronic products Amy Reyes - Technical Training for audio; Engineering Support & Manufacturing Christina Moreno - Engineering Support and Manufacturing Emanuel Creegan - Engineering & final QC/Manufacturing support Simone Kukla - Production support All other personnel are manufacturing, apprentice level technicians and support persons. Without them, we would not be The Soundsmith.
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