Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, audio pioneer, dies at 98

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RIP Dr. Fritz Sennheiser!!! :(

Irreplaceable loss.
 
saumilsingh said:
Why is it sad news? A life well lived and a legacy well deserved.
RIP now :).
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+1 to that.

Rest in peace Sir. You have done us audio buffs enough good :). May your name and legacy live on the Sennheiser brand.
 
I hate cemetery threads like this :@

The man lived till 98 !!

That's too damn long already.

Some interesting quotes from his bio on the company's website.

In 1958, Labor W was renamed Sennheiser electronic, as the company had long since ceased being just a small laboratory. The change in the company’s name was also accelerated by a report from the Australian sales partner. Apparently, the then prime minister of Australia had refused to speak into a Sennheiser microphone because he had seen the name “Labor W” and assumed that it belonged to the opposition Labor Party.
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In 1957, the company’s first wireless microphone system was presented to the public. Professor Dr. Fritz Sennheiser:

“There was some nice free publicity for us on television involving a sketch by the famous German TV presenter Peter Frankenfeld. He had a wireless microphone with a long cable attached. While he was telling his jokes, he kept getting tangled up in the cable. So he picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cable – and carried on with the show! Of course, everybody was talking about this new microphone afterwards, and that helped us a lot.”
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“Our engineers have always been given a lot of freedom. They are allowed to give free rein to their creative ideas, no matter how crazy they might seem. Often, it is these very ideas that result in the best developments and the best products. Any reservations expressed by financial managers who first of all had an eye on profit were thus reliably dispersed. After all, a company doesn’t only sell products but primarily sells ideas.” It was this philosophy of Fritz Sennheiser’s that enabled the company to develop and patent the world’s first open headphones.
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