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Connevans 1964

I left Redifon and was self employed as a photographer for a year, and then joined Connevans in 1964. Language laboratories were all the rage and real money was being spent on education. Meurig Evans had started the company on his own using subcontractors. He asked me to join him as chief engineer and we set up a workshop in Dorking. Within a year we had around 10 staff. My job was to keep production going and update the circuitry as needed. I developed printed circuit boards and later redesigned the whole system to run on integrated circuits.

I also developed what became known as 'auditory trainers' in conjunction with Mike Martin of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID). Using a super efficient earphone capsule from STC I first developed a headset that could produce sound levels of over 130db undistorted, and then a battery powered amplifier to drive them.  The headsets were also used in the language laboratories as the audio quality was so good. We even sold them to the BBC and were used on 'Top of the Pops'.

Language laboratories went out of favour and Connevans concentrated on the deaf teaching market from then on (1975)

I was there 9 years with a year out to work at Tetronics

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