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born 1946 Scotland

Ivor Sigmund Tiefenbrun MBE (born March 1946) is the Glasgow, Scotland-born founder and Chairman of Linn Products Ltd, UK-based manufacturers of audio equipment and home theatre equipment. Having almost single-handedly caused the renaissance of the British audio industry, he is a very influential figure in Scottish and hi-fi manufacturing, and was appointed MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1992.

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People don’t automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.

I foolishly assumed that if the thing measured better, it should sound better. I also assumed that if it didn't sound any better, there was no point in buying it.

Because I was involved in controversy, people saw me as controversial. Because the industry is about personalities, people thought Linn was about personalities.

The way Labour work is that they have demonised Thatcher as if she was an evil force... It's only because Scots are so thick that this was swallowed.

Business 101: Other people heard it and said if you make them, we'll sell them... I made them, they sold them, but they never paid me - which was my first lesson in business.

On opportunities: People equate survival in Britain with success. If you are still around you must be doing OK. Nobody sees the lost opportunities. We are the world leaders in creating lost opportunities.

On the EU: An act of collective insanity. We don't belong in Europe and the French and the Germans occasionally reveal their hatred of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. They hate Britain and America.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ivor Tiefenbrun (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.