NationofChange
A tribute to David Fletcher, high end audio wizard.
David W. Fletcher, 1940-2021
Two qualities inform David W. Fletcher’s brilliant, four-decade analog career: mastery of the entire LP turntable “ecosystem” and exceptional top-down and bottom-up skill-sets that resolved disruptions, in his words, from an “unknown and hostile environment.” His time as U.C. Berkeley graduate student in particle physics confirmed his foundation in theoretical science and precision testing. His bottom up, hands-on talents began in his father’s electronics repair business, expanded when running his own Berkeley shop, and shone forth when directing Sumiko, the preeminent U.S. analog importer/producer of tone arms and cartridges. Besides SOTA, standing for