However, his engineering savvy quickly drove Max to look to the front-end damping tonearm trough concepts first suggested by Professor Jack Dinsdale (Cranfield University, Dundee University), which helped in designing the original Rock turntable and arm. His passion for audio led Max to establish Townshend Audio in 1975, initially to market parabolic diamond styli under the Elite brand. The basis of such projects would continue to shape projects in high-performance audio in his later career (the design of high-sensitivity electronics blends well with the design of preamplifiers and the need for vibration isolation in these projects equates well to the Seismic Sink and subsequent audio designs).
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Max Townshend began his professional career in Australia, working on a diverse range of engineering projects that might notionally seem unconnected with audio, such as anti-submarine reconnaissance instrumentation for the Royal Australian Air Force and developing filter systems for oil drilling. A natural and colourful raconteur, there was no ‘popping round to see Max’ a visit to Max Townshend’s place was ten straight hours of talking, laughing, and watching the ever-enquiring mind of an engineer at work. It’s not just that Max was a friend, but he had the ability to be a friend to almost everyone he met.
It gets harder when you knew them, and harder still when it’s someone like Max Townshend, who died on December 31 st, 2021 aged 78. It’s never easy writing obituaries about people in your own industry.