32 Facts About Rudy Bozak

Rudolph Thomas Bozak was an audio electronics and acoustics designer and engineer in the field of sound reproduction.

Rudy Bozak's parents were Bohemian Czech immigrants; Rudy was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Rudy Bozak studied at Milwaukee School of Engineering; in 1981, the school awarded him an honorary doctorate in engineering.

Rudy Bozak married Lillian Gilleski; the two had three daughters: Lillian, Mary and Barbara.

Fresh out of college in 1933, Rudy Bozak began working for Allen-Bradley, an electronics manufacturer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Rudy Bozak moved to the East Coast in 1935 to work for Cinaudagraph out of Stamford, Connecticut.

In 1948 Rudy Bozak moved his family to North Tonawanda, New York to develop organ loudspeakers for Wurlitzer.

In 1950 Rudy Bozak was hired as a consultant by McIntosh Laboratory to develop a square loudspeaker driver unit but it was not an engineering success.

Rudy Bozak met Emory Cook in the early 1950s; the two hit it off and began working in a shared warehouse basement facility in Stamford.

Together, Rudy Bozak and Cook implemented a stereo loudspeaker system that would be able to show Cook's stereo recordings to best effect.

Henry Mancini and Benny Goodman, good friends of Rudy Bozak, owned Concert Grand speaker systems.

The backbone of the Rudy Bozak line was the B-302A system, offered in several cabinet styles over a period of years.

Rudy Bozak never offered an acoustic suspension speaker system; he stated that the full transient response and clean bass for which his woofers were famous could not be obtained with the heavier, reinforced woofer cones necessary for acoustic suspension.

Rudy Bozak began offering smaller speaker systems to answer consumer demand, but none were noted for exceptional performance until the LS-200 and LS-200A of the late 1970s.

For commercial sound reinforcement, Rudy Bozak introduced a biamped columnar loudspeaker in 1962.

Rudy Bozak accepted occasional United States Department of Defense contracts including an underwater low frequency driver intended for acoustic communication between ocean-going vessels and a vibration platform that Rudy Bozak employees called "The Shaker" which was meant to test the integrity of electronic assemblies in action.

Rudy Bozak is often remembered today for his advanced designs of DJ mixers which allowed the development of the concept of disc jockey mixing and 'discotheques'.

In 1968 Rudy Bozak brought these electronic products into the Rudy Bozak factory and developed them further.

The Rudy Bozak brand is owned by Analog Developments Ltd.

Rudy Bozak developed an electronic digital delay device in the early 1970s and used it to align loudspeakers in time within event spaces.

Rudy Bozak shifted from using McIntosh amplifiers for powering his loudspeakers to using Marantz amplifiers.

The last Bozak project that Rudy Bozak himself was an integral part of involved a thorough redesign of the B-200Y tweeter which had been a staple of Bozak loudspeakers since its introduction in 1962.

When Rudy Bozak turned 67 in 1977, he offered an opportunity for an employee buy-out headed by Bob Betts, his chief engineer.

Bozak didn't wait for an employee buy-out; with a handshake promise to retain certain crucial employees, Rudy sold the rights to his corporation to an existing business headed by Joseph Schlig.

Rudy Bozak was not in favor of using ports or vents to tune loudspeaker enclosures for greater low-frequency output from a smaller box.

Rudy Bozak was a purist; he felt that the impulse and transient response of ported designs was inferior and that the augmented bass was too boomy.

Rudy Bozak's efforts put Bozak into the position of being able to produce and service electronic products reliably and repeatedly.

Later, working with Richard Majestic, for whom Ledermann worked previously at RAM Audio, the two men designed the new Listener series, the LS-200A, 220-A, 330-A and others, employing a soft dome tweeter for the first time, as the Rudy Bozak tweeter did not have the top end range extension needed to attract the changing marketplace.

Rudy Bozak took note of the project, but did not participate in the design.

In 1938, Rudy Bozak was elected to Associate Grade membership with the Institute of Radio Engineers.

Rudy Bozak served in the same capacity again for two years starting in 1970.

Many references to Rudy Bozak can be found in modern hip hop music song titles and lyrics where the word can stand for the Rudy Bozak DJ mixer as well as for ability and virility:.