ABSTRACT
An audio industry pioneer, musician, and philanthropist, Fisher was born in Brooklyn, graduated from New York University in 1929, and worked professionally for two publishing firms. However, his main interest was audio and in 1937, in partnership with Herman Scott (who later went on to found his own company), he began Philharmonic Radio, which specialized in tuners, amplifiers, and speakers. In 1945, he sold Philharmonic and started a new company, Fisher Radio, which produced famously high quality high-fidelity components. Fisher could produce products of that caliber because he made a point of hiring first-rate technicians away from European companies that could not pay as well as he could.
