Menno van der Veen

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Ir. Menno van der Veen (born 1949) built his first valve amplifier when he was twelve years old, and this technology has captivated his imagination ever since. He studied Engineering Physics at the Rijks Universiteit Groningen in the Netherlands, where he graduated in the discipline of semiconductor electronics. Until 1991 he combined teaching physics to budding secondary-school teachers at the Hogeschool Windesheim with a second vocation as an audio engineer at the Papenstraat Theatre in Zwolle. There he learned the difficult skills needed to tune and/or tame both wonderful public address systems and excellent artists. As a reviewer of high-end audio equipment, he has written more than 360 articles for a variety of Dutch audio magazines. His articles deal with high-end consumer equipment and professional gear for the recording studio, research into state-of-the-art electronic and acoustic measuring equipment, studies of interinks and loudspeaker cables, the effects of feedback in amplifiers and the characteristics of output transformers for valve amplifiers. He has also published a number of his own valve amplifier designs. The guiding theme in his articles is the set of related questions 'Do we measure what we hear?' and 'Do we hear what we measure?' Portions of his research have also been published in books, lab reports and preprints of the Audio Engineering Society. Music is the golden thread that binds all his audio activities together, and he plays his guitars with zest. He also makes recordings - both analogue and digital - for DCDC, the Dutch Compact Disk Company. In 1986 he founded Ir. buro Vanderveen, dedicated to research and consultation related to new technologies for applications in the audio engineering field. Research related to EMC and CE, such as generating a clean mains supply, is one of the special interests. The main activity of this enterprise is designing valve amplifiers, loudspeakers and special toroidal transformers. Ir. van der Veen is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the Netherlands Acoustical Society.