LegendSpeakers.com.au
Title
Legend Acoustics
Description
Legend Acoustics was founded in 1995 by Dr Rod Crawford to design and manufacture world-class speakers in Australia. The decision was based on a wide range of experiences from around the world. (see CV)
After growing up in Tasmania, Rod won a scholarship from the Electrolytic Zinc Company to study physics and metallurgy at the University of Melbourne. He obtained first class honours and the Melbourne University Travelling Scholarship to continue his studies in the Department of Materials Science at the University of Oxford. There he was awarded a D Phil for his research into the fundamental properties of ordered alloys using X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy.
Rod returned to Tasmania to continue his career in education, becoming head of the Physics and Technology department at Elizabeth College. In 1986 he again returned to the UK, initially to Yorkshire home of his partner Liz. While teaching at an ITeC in Batley, he read an advert in a hifi magazine for a loud-speaker designer at Linn Products in Scotland, world famous for their Sondek LP12 turntable and Isobarik loudspeakers. Having a long interest in hifi, both for technological and aesthetic reasons, Rod applied but was somewhat surprised to get the job.
Languages
English
