erald Stanley has been withCrown for nearly 40 years.He started his career inelectronics by listening to shortwave broadcasts on old radiosthat he repaired by scaveng-ing parts from other oldradios. Working on RF (radiofrequency), IF (intermediate fre-quency), and AF (audio frequency)stages, Stanley’s youthful hobby led to along-standing interest in engineeringdesign. When he reached high school,Stanley started working on vacuum tubepower amplifiers with high-feedback circuitry forthe home audio systems of friends and family.Back in 1964, while a student at Michigan State, Stanley beganworking for Crown in the tape recorder sector. (This was Crown’s mainbusiness back then.) Designs of the mid-1960s incorporated transistorsrather than vacuum tubes and Stanley worked as a draftsman and poweramp designer on Crown’s first transistor components — including powerDavid Navone talks tech with Crown’s crown prince of power,GERALD STANLEY, the man behind JBL’s massive GTI series amplifiers.GReprinted from the September 2003 issue ofAutoMediaAutoMedia