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Stephen Mantz: South African born audio legend (Part 1)
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<blockquote data-quote="gapco" data-source="post: 1047001" data-attributes="member: 14336"><p>Lukas Louw a Kempton Park resident accompanied Stephen to L.A in 1983. Lukas was instrumental in designing car audio products for Soundstream and Cadance to mention a few. Stephen owned Audio Labs Pty Ltd which was based in Cape York House downtown Jhb where Lukas was his right hand man. Lukas sadly passed away in November 2020. For a short time I imported and distributed some of Hifonics products.</p><p></p><p>Hifonics was also a S.A. company owned by Helmut Stiglitz a German national residing in Jhb. In fact he owned a HiFi retail outlet that was in End street, Jhb. He left S.A and settled in the US and so began the production of car audio amplifiers for Hifonics USA.</p><p></p><p>Stephen produced many P.A. amplifiers used in sports venues,namely Ellis Park rugby stadium. Name of that amp was Cyclops. I still have the hand drawn schematic diagrams for that one and a few others.</p><p></p><p>Stephen also modded a pair of Macintosh MC 3500 valve amplifiers which he later sold. Somewhere on the web is the mods done to these amps.</p><p></p><p>Yep we have had some really knowledgeable people in S.A.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gapco, post: 1047001, member: 14336"] Lukas Louw a Kempton Park resident accompanied Stephen to L.A in 1983. Lukas was instrumental in designing car audio products for Soundstream and Cadance to mention a few. Stephen owned Audio Labs Pty Ltd which was based in Cape York House downtown Jhb where Lukas was his right hand man. Lukas sadly passed away in November 2020. For a short time I imported and distributed some of Hifonics products. Hifonics was also a S.A. company owned by Helmut Stiglitz a German national residing in Jhb. In fact he owned a HiFi retail outlet that was in End street, Jhb. He left S.A and settled in the US and so began the production of car audio amplifiers for Hifonics USA. Stephen produced many P.A. amplifiers used in sports venues,namely Ellis Park rugby stadium. Name of that amp was Cyclops. I still have the hand drawn schematic diagrams for that one and a few others. Stephen also modded a pair of Macintosh MC 3500 valve amplifiers which he later sold. Somewhere on the web is the mods done to these amps. Yep we have had some really knowledgeable people in S.A. [/QUOTE]
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