@tomic601 Roger didn't really specify any charitable foundations for donations, but I know he was very fond of KQED, the music department at Santa Barbara City College, and Jelly's Place Animal Rescue and Adoption in San Pablo.
For a little more history on Roger, he met Harold Beveridge at Stanford where Roger was going for his Masters and teaching there. He left after a year and went back home to Richmond, VA where he opened Audio Art, his high end store. He became a dealer for Beveridge among other well known brands and a couple years later Harold Beveridge hired him as his Chief Engineer. So Roger picked up and moved to Santa Barbara where he lived for 37 years. The photo on my website is from 1985 at his condo. Ironically the photo was taken at his half-life when he was 34 years old and 4 years into Music Reference.
The Beveridge RM-1/RM-2 is indeed a masterpiece. Direct coupled with a servo, 12 tubes, two MM phono inputs, and a slew of other features. Roger told me he pulled out all the stops in that design. The RM-2 power supply was built with four outlets on the back and designed to have the RM-1 preamp, RM-3 active crossover, and the OTL amps plugged into it. While assumed by many, Roger told me that he did not design the OTLs, but tested all of them and did put his signature on the ones that passed his requirements. To Roger's dismay and against the best efforts to convince him otherwise, Beveridge was not a stickler for quality control and parts reliability. This ultimately led to their separation.
For a little more history on Roger, he met Harold Beveridge at Stanford where Roger was going for his Masters and teaching there. He left after a year and went back home to Richmond, VA where he opened Audio Art, his high end store. He became a dealer for Beveridge among other well known brands and a couple years later Harold Beveridge hired him as his Chief Engineer. So Roger picked up and moved to Santa Barbara where he lived for 37 years. The photo on my website is from 1985 at his condo. Ironically the photo was taken at his half-life when he was 34 years old and 4 years into Music Reference.
The Beveridge RM-1/RM-2 is indeed a masterpiece. Direct coupled with a servo, 12 tubes, two MM phono inputs, and a slew of other features. Roger told me he pulled out all the stops in that design. The RM-2 power supply was built with four outlets on the back and designed to have the RM-1 preamp, RM-3 active crossover, and the OTL amps plugged into it. While assumed by many, Roger told me that he did not design the OTLs, but tested all of them and did put his signature on the ones that passed his requirements. To Roger's dismay and against the best efforts to convince him otherwise, Beveridge was not a stickler for quality control and parts reliability. This ultimately led to their separation.