Polymath

The other day Dave Wilson was vexed by the sound of the crossover in a new loudspeaker. Engineer Vern Credille brought him a piece of graph paper covered from top to bottom with equations. The result at the bottom of the page, he calmly announced, was the solution to the design issue they were wrestling with. Subsequent listening demonstrated that Vern's claim was, in fact, correct.

The ability to translate the problems of high-end audio reproduction in real-world situations into the language of mathematics and back again is not what you'd expect from your garden-variety engineer. Part of Vern's talent lies in the multiplicity of his degrees: math, electrical engineering, and electronics technology; he's even studied the science of air turbulence (the influence of the last bearing directly on the revolutionary port designs for Alexandria® and the WATCH DogTM subwoofer).

Certainly no modern loudspeaker company would choose to do without their multi-processor computers, digital spectrum analyzers, and other exotic tools of the trade. At Wilson Audio, however, we assign equal-if not greater-value to a piece of paper and a sharp pencil in the hands of a true polymath named Vern Credille.