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Zia FaruqiA Brief History of Work Experience

As V.P. of Engineering & Design, Zia carried out the industrial design and led a team of engineers to complete a range of

products for Manley Laboratories. A manufacturer of Pro Audio equipment, including microphones, signal processors, dynamic range processors, equalizers, digital converters, and specialized

mastering products. The company also manufactures High Fidelity Vacuum Tube based consumer audio equipment.

Zia’s first industrial design and fully developed product for Manley, the CORE Channel strip, prototype to final stage, bench proof of electrical design, and mechanical design of final assembly and wiring.

MANLEY CORE - 2014

Channel Strip, Microphone Preamplifier, Opto Compressor, EQ, FET Limiter.

NAMM 2014 CORE Launch

Inspecting the first production run with the Factory Operations Manager

Zia designed the display stand for the FORCE 2015 NAMM Launch.

Second product Zia designed for Manley. Zia carried out the industrial design, development for production and named the product, The Force.

Force wins 31st TEC Award in 2016, Four Channel Vacuum Tube Microphone Preamplifier.

Video Link to NAMM 2016 Product Launch

2016 – MANLEY NU MU

Zia carried out the industrial design and development of the NuMu, which is a tube based compressor with a solid-state FET output stage. Zia designed and prototyped the metering system for easy manufacture and named the product.

Dual Channel Limiter and Compressor. Recording engineers rely on signal processing equipment like this, for the process involved in mixing and recording music.

2016 – ELOP+

Zia redesigned an older unit the ELOP which had slowed down in sales. The revised version added extra features and a heavily reduced BOM, which resulted in reducing the retail price by 30%. Sales of this unit increased by 500%!

Some comments on the Gearslutz Forum from the President of Manley Laboratories

Zia designed the Manley Headphone Amplifier with the full support of his team. A very complex unit with sophisticated micro controller electronics combined with vacuum tubes and a switched mode PSU.

Prototype development and CES launch in 2016

CES 2012, Tube Technology

Synergy Carbon debut. The

industrial and electronic design was executed by

Zia.

The Synergy was originally designed by Zia in the 90’s, its captivating design drew attention finding a spot in a BBC

drama! It was the worlds first tube amplifier to have a remote control. The Synergy Carbon was a spin on the original design as Zia worked with a UK Silverstone F1 Racing Carbon Fiber

team.

Zia designed the Tube Technology Fulcrum DAC and Transport in 2002 . He worked closely with Robert Watts from Chord Electronics to develop the 64 Bit Digital Engine, Vacuum Tube Output Stage & Upsampling CD Transport.

Zia has been involved with Industrial Design and development of Audio

Products since 1988. Here is a small selection of products &

technology designed & brought to final market by

him.

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