The news was announced by his son Damon on the What’s Best forum this morning.
”It’s with deep regret that I share with all of you the passing of my father, Albert von Schweikert. He was dealing with a number of health related issues for the last few months but I can tell you with complete certainty that it never got him down. Even when we were separated by mandatory hospital quarantines from the outside world, he was always cheerful and happy on the phone. And when his time eventually came, it was swift and painless.” (cont’d on the forum.)
Albert Von Schweikert 13 March 1945 - 29 May 2020
RIP Albert.

AMR-iFi R&D

Quite a few years ago, I spent an evening listening to some Von Schweikerts.

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Did you like them, which ones?
I only met him at the Las Vegas CES, he struck me as being very thorough and into the sound as much as the engineering.

AMR-iFi R&D

They may have been the VR-9s - my recollection is vague & was more of the whole system - a digital set-up with all-unfamiliar components.

I vaguely recall that the company suffered a catastrophic flood in NY state, which closed the company down - www.stereophile.com/news/10413/
Later they emerged again from the ashes, anew in California - www.stereophile.com/news/10619/index.html

This is a Von Schweikert video, featuring various company personnel, with some images of Albert V Schweikert.

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RIP Albert.

Von Schweikert Audio nowadays is a tribute to Albert lead by his son Damon and colleague Leif Swanson. Between them they have created a new range of extraordinary loudspeakers. Damon contributes the aesthetic side, Leif the technical capability on the acoustic side. I've spent time with them at their Riverside factory. They are the nicest guys and without the ego that usually goes with the expensive end of the high end of our industry.

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Greg Weaver (in THE ABSOLUTE SOUND, 1 Jun 2020) provides a most informative obituary for Albert von Schweikert".

Not only did I not know that he worked for Oscar Heil, but he developed the first Heil AMT drive unit.
(V Schweikert would likely have known Nelson Pass also?)

" Von Schweikert developed an original theory, one that suggested that "a perfect speaker should be the inverse of the recording microphone" "
(During his time enrolled at Cal-Tech.)

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