Kako „oprati“ ime nedužnog Gundry-ja:
Well, of course having found this, I have to jump in. My father, Dick Gundry, who spent almost all his working life in the BBC and was for many years responsible for maintaining technical standards in BBC Radio (which have sadly gone down since his retirement in about 1971), and who was known behind his back as golden ears, would not have been pleased to have his name attached to a deliberate departure from a flat frequency response in loudspeakers. Has anyone any idea on how this term arose? It must have been much more recent than 1971. One of my father's responsibilities back in the late 1950s and early 1960s was the development of stereo techniques in preparation for a means to broadcast it. (Some of those early experimental recordings have more recently been issued on CD by the BBC). At that time the BBC developed its own monitoring loudspeakers on the grounds that commercially available ones were generally not very good. I used to say that loudspeakers were either good or loud but not both! During early stereo experiments it became apparent that the best BBC monitoring speakers of the day did not perform well in pairs for stereo because they did not match each other closely enough, particularly in phase response, so central images tended to be diffuse. A major reason was that to accommodate variations in the drivers each and every cross-over network was adjusted for a flat amplitude response. A new range of speakers was developed, but it is possible that at least for those first ones, the uniformity was considered more important than perfect flatness, and thus the speakers may have shown the "Gundry dip". However it would not have been a design aim but a side-effect, and in any case my father would have had no input to the designs, which were developed at the BBC Research Department (Dudley Harwood, Spencer Hughes et al.) Kenneth Gundry, San Francisco
I can confirm Rob Wansbeck's recollection of some TV studios, at BBC Television Centre at least where I was for two or three years in the mid-1960s, having available small loudspeakers representative of typical TV sets to permit a check that the programme remained intelligible when reproduced over poor audio equipment. However, I am quite sure that has nothing to do with the "Gundry dip"! I still would like to know how my father's name became associated with something that I am sure he would not have endorsed. Kenneth Gundry
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