If bad sound were fatal, audio would be the leading cause of death

Excerpts from the Syn-Aud-Con Newsletters, annotated in 2003, start in 1972 and chronicle changes in the audio and acoustic industry until the authors' retirement in 1995; their entire career after founding Synergetic Audio Concepts was spent writing, lecturing and educating about sound system engineering and quality issues. In the process of communicating with graduates of their seminars on audio and acoustics, a quarterly newsletter was established and the present collection is mainly the "fun" items and historical notes that previously accompanied technical information