D.W. Fearn & Associates

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The history of D.W. Fearn & Associates is the history of its founder, Douglas W. Fearn. I have always been interested in both music and electronics. As a youngster, I would often go with my father to rehearsals, concerts, and recording sessions of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he played French Horn. The experience of listening to one of the world's finest orchestras in a fine concert hall shaped the way I hear things. I would often wander around the Academy of Music in Philadelphia during rehearsals and listen to how the orchestra sounded in many different seats in the hall. Or, I might sit on stage with my father during a rehearsal and experience what it is like to be surrounded by pure acoustic music. At the same time, I was fascinated with electronics and built many devices for fun. As a young amateur radio operator, I built transmitters and other rf gadgets. Later, I built audio amplifiers. This was in the 1960s, when transistors were readily available but expensive and they didn't sound very good. So virtually all of my experience in those days was with vacuum tubes. My high school had an FM broadcast station, and I was very active in operation and construction of new facilities there. The radio station recorded and broadcast many school events, including concerts. We were fortunate to have some very fine equipment: Ampex tape machines, Collins consoles and mixers, and an assortment of dynamic and ribbon microphones. ...

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