"Mr. Bill Hecht is one of the industry's earliest pioneers in sound system design and speaker research and development. He actually developed several new designs to solve a series of specific problems during his hand-made audio unit period, which greatly improved the sound The performance of the unit. The soft dome tweeter (US Patent # 3328537 – 1967) is one of Bill Heckert’s most famous innovations and has been the most widely used tweeter design in the world for the past 50 years."
——Wikipedia
"He is the best and brightest genius in the consumer electronics field. His many innovations and achievements have allowed USS and PHASE to continue to flourish and have withstood the test of time. Most of the contemporary brands have disappeared, but PHASE has always stood at the pinnacle of the audio industry."
——Bill Hector won the 2005 Sound Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award
The legendary life of Mr. Bill Hecht began as the chief engineer of the General Projection Company in New York. In 1953, after installing the projection systems and sound systems of many of the best cinemas in the United States, Mr. Bill Hecht used a multi-channel electronic sound reinforcement system for the first time in the Radio City Music Hall project, opening up modern film sound reinforcement era.
Read moreMr. Bill Hecht's most well-known patent is the 1967 US Patent #3328537 The Sofe Dome Tweeter. As the audio industry standard in the design of tweeters, almost all mainstream audio manufacturers at that time immediately purchased the license for the invention patent from USS, and it continues to be applied to today more than 60 years later.
Read moreThe legendary American audio brand McIntosh was founded in 1949 and started with power amplifier products. In the 1960s, the release of multiple classic models and the adoption of the iconic appearance of the "blue head" achieved great commercial success. The founder of the company, Frank McIntosh, was determined to expand its product line into the speaker market. He found Mr. Bill Hecht and jointly decided that USS would be responsible for McIntosh’s audio development and production. Since 1970, he has successively released a number of classic models of Hi-End audio. The market is well received. This cooperation, which can be regarded as a model in the industry, continues to this day. USS produces audio products for McIntosh, and McIntosh provides power amplifier products for USS.
Read moreMr. Bill Hecht formally founded the PHASE brand in 1981, fully applying a series of the most advanced audio technology to his own products, presenting consumers with the unique value of high-end audio. Until today, PHASE has long been a world-class audio brand known for its advanced performance and top quality.
Read moreMr. Bill Hecht and his son Mr. Ken Hecht jointly invented the second-generation Patent #4566178 Kevlar & RPF cell structure & glass fiber "sandwich" plane unit in 1992, using the latest composite material Kevlar Kevlar as the bottom surface. The middle is filled with RPF material and the surface is covered with glass fiber, which further improves the high-frequency phase accuracy and sound field positioning accuracy, and has a smaller distortion rate than the first-generation planar unit, once again leading the design of the planar unit in the entire industry.
Read moreAt the CEDIA Audiovisual Intelligence Exhibition in the United States in 2005, PHASE once again shocked the industry and released the world's first digital reference cinema system dARTS, which was developed after 15 years. It adopts the fully digital sound field automatic calibration DSP power amplifier DP2000 developed by Mr. Ken Hecht. The woofer adopts patented Nomex & glass fiber three-layer composite unit, and the tweeter adopts patented silk titanium tweeter. The dARTS theater after sound field calibration, It can make any room the best home theater in the United States. At the exhibition site, it immediately received vigorous publicity and extensive reports from the exhibition party and well-known media, and won the 2005 Best Sound System Award and the Most Valuable Innovation Award. In the next few years, dARTS continued to sweep various awards in major media, including the Best in Best award of the Robb Report and the evaluation of "the world's greatest audio ever".
Read moreIn 2012, PHASE released the new Velocity series, which adopted the Vapor Deposited Titanium Woofer invented by Mr. Ken Hecht and the classic high-performance soft dome tweeter. The audiophile-grade sound quality and the mainstream price are popular in the United States. "Home Theater" magazine, named the 2012 5-star equipment award.
Read moreIn 2020, CIC Audio® released the 900 series reference monitor private theater with the iconic ultra-high-definition sound field. The main speakers use dual 6.5-inch Nomex & glass fiber three-layer composite woofers, array type 3.4-inch crawler tweeter system, omnidirectional crossover, threaded suspension, 3-unit design for subwoofer, active long-stroke 10-inch fiberglass composite unit on the front, 10-inch passive unit on both sides, power of 1200 watts, absolute Super subwoofer.
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