High End Stereo Equipment - Bettinger Audio Design

Simplicity, Purity, Musical Truth

Audio Design and Hand-Crafted Audio Components

Bettinger Audio Design provides high end audio component design and consulting services specializing in analog PC board design and component layout. GAS Audio provides reference-level restorations of Great American Sound equipment.

Welcome to our life! Mike Bettinger is a 45 year veteran of the high-end audio industry, holder of 24 U.S. Patents, and a passionate music lover. That passion drives every audio product he designs.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion, and it never fades!

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - DaVinci

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About Me

My Background: Music has been a high priority for me throughout my life. While going to college, I apprenticed in my uncle's stereo repair shop on Long Island and, when we moved to Idaho, opened my own high-end repair shop. Inspired by the bleeding-edge work of James Bongiorno, my hobby evolved into GAS Audio in 1981. The business grew worldwide. Recognition of the inherent musicality of GAS Audio's restorations, for which we're very grateful, has resulted in a variety of commissions to design the products showcased on this website. Bettinger Audio Design has been a logical evolution of GAS Audio to design and produce these cutting edge new designs.

My Design Philosophy: Our research proves that circuit layout, grounding, and supply network implementation are critical to the low level resolving capabilities of an audio circuit. Controlling return loops of both the signal and the circuit biasing are also crucial. Our approach is based on extensive testing in strictly controlled circuit environments and through prototype construction, with listening tests the final arbiter. Our work reveals the purity and low-level detail retrieval that makes our products stand out and listeners take notice. Listening to well-reproduced music should stop you in your tracks. Music should envelop you and keep you wanting more until you realize you've forgotten to eat and stayed up way too late. We strive for this in all of our work.

My Background: Music has been a high priority for me throughout my life. While going to college, I apprenticed in my uncle's stereo repair shop on Long Island and, when we moved to Idaho, opened my own high-end repair shop. Inspired by the bleeding-edge work of James Bongiorno, my hobby evolved into GAS Audio in 1981. The business grew worldwide. Recognition of the inherent musicality of GAS Audio's restorations, for which we're very grateful, has resulted in a variety of commissions to design the products showcased on this website. Bettinger Audio Design has been a logical evolution of GAS Audio to design and produce these cutting edge new designs.

My Inspiration: Music has had a profound and transcendent impact on me since I was a child. This love inspired me to modify stereo equipment to sound better for my own enjoyment. Repairing audio equipment, I had the unique opportunity to see and analyze the designs of a wealth of high-end equipment. Understanding what made one sound better than another was a source of intrigue for me, and I learned a great deal about the best ways to implement a good design. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton (1675)

My Design Philosophy: Our research proves that circuit layout, grounding, and supply network implementation are critical to the low level resolving capabilities of an audio circuit. Controlling return loops of both the signal and the circuit biasing are also crucial. Our approach is based on extensive testing in strictly controlled circuit environments and through prototype construction, with listening tests the final arbiter. Our work reveals the purity and low-level detail retrieval that makes our products stand out and listeners take notice. Listening to well-reproduced music should stop you in your tracks. Music should envelop you and keep you wanting more until you realize you've forgotten to eat and stayed up way too late. We strive for this in all of our work.

My Background: Music has been a high priority for me throughout my life. While going to college, I apprenticed in my uncle's stereo repair shop on Long Island and, when we moved to Idaho, opened my own high-end repair shop. Inspired by the bleeding-edge work of James Bongiorno, my hobby evolved into GAS Audio in 1981. The business grew worldwide. Recognition of the inherent musicality of GAS Audio's restorations, for which we're very grateful, has resulted in a variety of commissions to design the products showcased on this website. Bettinger Audio Design has been a logical evolution of GAS Audio to design and produce these cutting edge new designs.

My Design Philosophy: Our research proves that circuit layout, grounding, and supply network implementation are critical to the low level resolving capabilities of an audio circuit. Controlling return loops of both the signal and the circuit biasing are also crucial. Our approach is based on extensive testing in strictly controlled circuit environments and through prototype construction, with listening tests the final arbiter. Our work reveals the purity and low-level detail retrieval that makes our products stand out and listeners take notice. Listening to well-reproduced music should stop you in your tracks. Music should envelop you and keep you wanting more until you realize you've forgotten to eat and stayed up way too late. We strive for this in all of our work.

My Design Philosophy: Our research proves that circuit layout, grounding, and supply network implementation are critical to the low level resolving capabilities of an audio circuit. Controlling return loops of both the signal and the circuit biasing are also crucial. Our approach is based on extensive testing in strictly controlled circuit environments and through prototype construction, with listening tests the final arbiter. Our work reveals the purity and low-level detail retrieval that makes our products stand out and listeners take notice. Listening to well-reproduced music should stop you in your tracks. Music should envelop you and keep you wanting more until you realize you've forgotten to eat and stayed up way too late. We strive for this in all of our work.

My Design Philosophy: Our research proves that circuit layout, grounding, and supply network implementation are critical to the low level resolving capabilities of an audio circuit. Controlling return loops of both the signal and the circuit biasing are also crucial. Our approach is based on extensive testing in strictly controlled circuit environments and through prototype construction, with listening tests the final arbiter. Our work reveals the purity and low-level detail retrieval that makes our products stand out and listeners take notice. Listening to well-reproduced music should stop you in your tracks. Music should envelop you and keep you wanting more until you realize you've forgotten to eat and stayed up way too late. We strive for this in all of our work.