Allen Boothroyd
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Allen Boothroyd is an industrial designer. He trained as a mechanical engineer and went on to study industrial design at the Royal College of Art.
He is Managing Director of Cambridge Product Design Ltd and Co-founder & Design Director of Meridian Audio Ltd.
Meridian Audio Ltd is based in Cambridgeshire, UK, was founded in 1977 by Allen Boothroyd and Robert Stuart. With a 25-year history of innovation and development of the highest quality consumer audio systems, the award-winning company is widely recognized as a world leader in digital and analog audio reproduction.
Meridian developed the world’s first audiophile CD player, the world’s first consumer digital surround controller, developed the MLP lossless packing systems mandated for use in DVD-Audio, and is the only UK audio manufacturer to be a member of the DVD Forum Working Group 4. The company’s optical disc players, DSP-based loudspeakers and Digital Theatre systems are unique in the industry, maintaining a super-quality digital audio signal throughout the path from the source to the amplifier, and using digital signal processing to generate advanced crossover characteristics that would be impossible with conventional passive analog systems.
Products
Some products designed by Boothroyd:For
A design to function both as the keyboard for the Acorn System 2 and as the case for the Acorn Atom.
The BBC Micro.
The Risc PC.
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