Well Tempered Turntable
Bill Firebaugh, who retired from Ford Aerospace in 1988, remains one of phonography's most notable innovators—and a manufacturer of exceptional integrity and humility. As evidence of the former, I offer the fact that there has never been a Well Tempered CD Player; as for the latter, Firebaugh's reputation is well summed up by something he told me earlier this year: "A phonograph record is one of man's greatest inventions; I consider myself to have found one tiny piece of the puzzle."
