ABSTRACT

Earning a B.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1959, Russell went on to work for Sonotone Corp., a maker of hearing aids, phonograph cartridges, ceramic microphones, nickel cadmium batteries, tubes, and tape heads, from 1959 to 1967, ending up as Senior Engineer. In 1967, he went to work for McIntosh Laboratory, as director of acoustic research, and stayed there until his retirement in 1992. While at McIntosh, he designed the highly regarded C26 preamplifier, and went on to set up the company’s then new loudspeaker division. Over the years, he created 21 different speaker designs for the company, including column-type and equalized systems, winning patents for several of them. Russell has published audio-related articles in numerous consumer magazines and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the International Society for General Semantics.