Few indeed are the movers and shakers of hi-fi who were actually bom and bred in the business, as Mike Creek was. His audio initiation came through his father, who owned the company that made Wyndsor tape recorders in the 1950s and 1960s. 'My father used to bring prototypes home to give to me to try out, to see if I could find anything they hadn't thought about,' he says. 'Before the days of software engineers, they had lots of switches on the front, for half-track, quarter-track, superimpose, built-in echo. And I would say to him "Do you know if you press this one and that one together, it does this?" and he'd say, "No, it wasn't meant to...". Or he'd even say, "Well, that's a good feature, we'll leave it in."' So when Mike decided he wanted to leave technical college and get a job, he started working for his father.
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