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Audio
Pritchard has a particular interest in artistic audio, the type of audio caters to artistic tastes instead of electronic measurement. Artistic audio exploration exemplifies Pritchard’s ability to listen and evaluate customer’s preferences. While engineers design amplifiers to replicate their inputs without any embellishments, artists choose amplifiers based upon their embellishments. The fundamental to the creation of artistic audio is the ability to translate the mysterious language and to thereby solve an age old electronic enigma. Pritchard has translated and exaggerated the wonders of vacuum tubes in solid state designs. These concepts are so unique that Pritchard was awarded many patents, foreign and domestic, on the resulting circuits and designs.
Pritchard artistic audio work did not stop with amplifiers, but branched into two other areas, speakers and microphones. Today’s speaker theory leans predominately to the Thiele-Small alignment of ported cabinets. Unfortunately, the requirements for these amplifiers preclude an important feature of tube amplifiers, low damping. Consequently, Pritchard invented a completely new type of speaker cabinet (patent-pending).
Pritchard was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Designer’s Grant for the creation of a tube emulator condenser microphone. This work led to a phantom-powered tube emulator condenser microphone system. This system has the ability to be tuned to the vocalists voice to produce the enriching harmonics at just the right level.
Metis is currently producing equipment needed to produce Pritchard’s designs. This equipment is representative of all prior experiences: fixtures to assist electronic assembly, fixtures for computer-controlled cutting and engraving of aluminum chassis components, and machines and fixtures for cutting and assembly of wood cabinets.
Contact
Us:
Located Just Outside of Maryland, Virginia & Pennsylvania at
290 Pritchard Lane, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411;
Telephone: 304-258-4799 Fax: 304-258-4763
Eric Pritchard and everyone at Metis respects and honors the intellectual property of our clients and potential clients. Unfortunately, this limits our ability to provide examples and information of prior experience, particularly on more recent projects.
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