Newsgroup: it.hobby.hi-fi
Titolo: La morte di Tom Colangelo

L'ex progettista di Mark Levinson ("the brand" and "the man")  e
Cello, l'attuale proprietario e progettista di Viola Labs, č morto lo
scorso 7 settembre 2007, a seguito delle ferite riportate in un
incidente stradale occorsorgli negli Stati Uniti.
La notizia riportata da 
http://www.6moons.com/news/news.html
 cosě
recita:
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September 07: Orbituary: Hi Srajan, I have sad news to report. Tom
Colangelo, the chief electrical engineer and designer behind Viola,
and formerly of Cello and Mark Levinson, was killed in a one-car crash
Wednesday morning. Tom was my neighbor, living two doors down from me.
I would sometimes stop to chat with him about audio and his business
when he was out walking his dog.
Here is the text of the announcement in the New Haven Register: "A
Hamden man died in a one-car collision on the Wilbur Cross Parkway
just south of Exit 59 Wednesday morning. State police said Thomas P.
Colangelo, 57, of 20 Rolfe Road suffered fatal injuries when the 2002
Firebird he was driving veered right and struck the wire rope
guardrail off the road while he was traveling south on the parkway at
6:43 a.m. Traffic backed up for miles as it took rescue workers until
almost 11:30 a.m. to remove the car because of the way it was
positioned, said state police spokesman Trooper William Tate. Once the
car hit the guardrail, it then went farther south and hit trees and
brush.
"The state police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Squad responded to
the scene to assist in the investigation and to help analyze a cause
of the accident, which was not known Wednesday, Tate said."
Tom was behind a great lineage of classic products from the Levinson
and Cello days, many of which are still sought after (e.g., Cello
Pallette). His new company, Viola, was apparently making sales mainly
into the Asian market, although his preamp design did get a very
favorable review in The Absolute Sound. I know Tom was enthusiastic
about his Firebird, too, and had modified it for better performance.
The audio world is poorer for his loss.
Sadly,
Steve Marsh
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RIP
--
Veritas filia temporis

Dal sito 
http://www.violalabs.com/designers.html
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Tom Colangelo - Vice President: Research and Development
 
Tom has been designing his own unique style of circuitry for the past
30 years. He is considered one of the leading audio design engineers
in the industry today. His products designed in collaboration with
Paul, have won numerous awards from audio magazines around the world,
including both "State of the Art" and "Component of the Year" awards
from Japan's foremost audio magazine, Stereo Sound.
Since he began his career at R.T. Bozak, designing circuitry for
accuracy was always his objective. It was a goal that held fast
through his work in the development of the ML-1, ML-2, ML-3, ML-4,
ML-5, ML-6, ML-6A, ML-7, ML-7A, ML-8, ML-9, ML-10, ML-11 and ML-12
while at MLAS.  At Cello he pursued his quest for accuracy and sonic
neutrality. His ideals were continued in the Audio Palette, Audio
Suite, Duet 350, Encore 50, Encore Preamplifier, Encore 1 Meg
Preamplifier, Palette Preamplifier, RDAC, and the Performance and
Performance II Amplifiers.
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