George Alexandrovich

George Alexandrovich was born in Yugoslavia and attended schools in Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Germany. In the United States, he studied at the RCA Institute and at Brooklyn Polytech, earning a B.S.E.E. At Telectro Industries Corp., he was involved in the design and development of the first tape reorders and specialized military electronic test and communications equipment.

After service in the Korean war, he ran Sherman Fairchild's private research lab. At Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp., he designed and manufactured turntables, tonearms, pickups, mixing consoles, amplifiers, equalizers, reverberation chambers, the first light-activated compander, Autoten, Lumiten compressors, limiters, and a line of remote-controlled audio components. He also designed the first professional multichannel portable console, a disk-cutting lathe, and stereo cutters. As vice president and general manager his responsibilities included designing and manufacturing the Voice of America recording facilities, NBC-TV studio consoles for Johnny Carson, Huntley-Brinkley Newsroom, KNX, KCBS, and other radio stations.

At Stanton Magnetics, Inc., as vice president of field engineering and the professional products manager for phonograph cartridge research, he traveled extensively, holding seminars, giving lectures, and conducting conferences.

George was a fellow and a past governor of the AES. He held eighteen patents in the audio field and was past chairman of the Electronics Industry Association (EIA) P8.2 Standards Committee.