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Science seeks the truth, art seeks beauty and religion seeks virtue. These are three philosophical fundamentals. A wireless microphone system is a science-based product which requires constant refinements in pursuit of its own truth - the accurate reproduction of pure natural sound. It is this goal that MIPRO strives to make with every improvement in its products and is the ultimate achievement for audio professionals.

Ever since Edison first invented the phonograph for recording and replaying sound, audio engineers started using circuitry of vacuum tube in for amplification and sound quality improvement. At this stage, audio engineers not only pursue the most natural sound possible, but take one step further in pursuing the feel of "live" listening. Hence, audio industry is now moved from Hi-Fi sound to stereo sound. However, the search for the most natural sound doesn't stop here as engineers' continuous work contribute to today's surround sound or THX system. Hardware wise, evolving from vacuum tube to solid stage. However, this wave of hardware revolution does not satisfy audio enthusiasts' endless desire for the reproduction of natural sound. Upon arrival of digital age, analog circuit design is now possible for upgrade to digital. Therefore, audio industry can successfully break through the limitations of wave distortion, phase distortion, dynamic distortion, S/N ratio, and transient response which are inherent characteristics of analog designed products.

I have loved listening to pro audio since childhood. Due to the lack of materials after World War II, I had to purchase a second-hand vacuum and electrical spare parts from a ship dismantling merchant in order to assemble my favorite pro audio equipment. After completion of university in 1960, I decided to start a business related to the selling, installation and repair of electronic pro audio equipment in my spare time, meanwhile remaining committed to teaching. Somehow the hobby became my lifetime occupation. In 1965, I was first involved in designing a condenser microphone. Later I discovered the SONY Electret Condenser Microphone and devoted 100% concentration on the research of Electret theory and the manufacture of the condenser capsule. As I was a big fan of pro audio, the Mclntosh brand became my ideal, but until the economy got better, I couldn't afford to fulfill my dreams. Instead, I invested my time in the exploration of the Mclntosh design philosophy, which seemed to reflect the authenticity of pro audio like a smooth mirror. It is this thought that inspired my design notions which were then applied to the development of the condenser capsule and wireless microphone with my expertise in electronics.

The value of an antique artifact increases as time goes by. Similarly, the development of technology also moves forward. The timing technology of a quartz watch gives an accurate time reading that a mechanical watch can never achieve. Digital circuit technology breaks through most of the bottlenecks that an analog circuit encounters. However, many mechanical watch fans have never liked the quartz watch because a watch is not just a timing device for them. Similarly, many music lovers still favor a vacuum tube system because simply listening to music on their audio equipment is not their sole purpose in using it. Even though it seems there is a trend for people to collect mechanical watches and vacuum tube audio equipment, they don't really use them for accurate time or for listening to nice music. For me, however, an audio system is always the equipment necessary to reproduce the music in its most accurate form. Otherwise, sound engineers would not have to devote themselves so much to adopting the most advanced technology to overcome the technological bottlenecks of sound equipment just to present the most natural sound effect, which is the ultimate goal of audio appreciation. I am an audio lover and a designing engineer of audio equipment. When I was young, I explored quite a few world-class vacuum tube audio systems. I can't deny the value for the existence of vacuum tube audio; however, I can't make myself go back to the age of the vacuum tube. When we study the development trends in audio technology, it is apparent that if a vacuum tube system could completely solve all the technology bottlenecks in representing the true sound, then audio engineers would not have needed to develop such advanced technologies as the semiconductor and digital circuit. Therefore, to achieve the ultimate goal of reproducing the pure, natural sound, I insist on going beyond traditional design and will continue to adopt the most advanced wireless technology to design MIPRO's wireless systems.