Introduction

We are Sean Lowen and Greg Edelston, two students at Olin College in Needham, MA. For one of our classes this semester, EE Prototyping, we were assigned to perform an "autopsy" on a piece of commercial electronics: disassemble it, take pictures, study its construction, and figure out roughly how it works.

We chose to study the Technics SH-8017, a graphics equalizer produced by Panasonic in the early 1980s. In the following posts, you can find our deconstruction and brief and analysis of the equalizer. (In general, the narrative reads from bottom to top, but can really be read in any order.) Enjoy!