JBL P-1000 Supplementary Manual

erald Stanley has been with

Crown for nearly 40 years.

He started his career in

electronics by listening to short

wave broadcasts on old radios

that he repaired by scaveng-

ing parts from other old

radios. Working on RF (radio

frequency), IF (intermediate fre-

quency), and AF (audio frequency)

stages, Stanley’s youthful hobby led to a

long-standing interest in engineering

design. When he reached high school,

Stanley started working on vacuum tube

power amplifiers with high-feedback circuitry for

the home audio systems of friends and family.

Back in 1964, while a student at Michigan State, Stanley began

working for Crown in the tape recorder sector. (This was Crown’s main

business back then.) Designs of the mid-1960s incorporated transistors

rather than vacuum tubes and Stanley worked as a draftsman and power

amp designer on Crown’s first transistor components — including power

David Navone talks tech with Crown’s crown prince of power, 

GERALD STANLEY, the man behind JBL’s massive GTI series amplifiers.

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Reprinted from the September 2003 issue of

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