The Original BassPack Prototype cica '94

John and Sandy ---Cancun '98

But, I've loved audio equipment, cars, and boats since I was a kid! I grew up in Arlington, Texas; attended MIT after high school, graduated with a S.B. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1967 and joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. I helped put Man on Moon in 1969 and helped launch about a 100 other manned missions before I retired in 1993.

Oh, while at MIT I designed and built many high powered vacuum tube stereo amplifiers, and I had the pleasure of taking Acoustics 101 (probably not the real number, electrical engineering was course 6) from the now famous Amar Bose.

Over the last dozen or so years I've designed and built many audio devices for other companies as a consultant. These included CD demonstration units found in many department stores and an early commercial version of something similar to a modern MP3 player. Many thousands of these units were sold.

OK, where did Outdoor Audio Systems come from?

10 years ago my son came home from school and said that the band director would let him play guitar in the marching band ..... if I would build a battery powered backpack amplifier for him. I did and it worked well, but it was really heavy! The project was interrupted by many consulting jobs and I never commercialized the idea. But, now a lot of things have changed, better outdoor speakers, lighter and more powerful batteries, etc. But maybe I'm digressing too much.

One day a friend suggested that we put a radio in a PWC. The radio ate up too much power and was too big to fit anywhere on the PWC, so I designed and built our first MP3 power amplifier. My friend's wife loved to assemble the amps, so right before Christmas of 2005 we formed dbAudioSystems. After 15 months as a partnership, my part of the company has been renamed Outdoor Audio Systems and is now a sole proprietorship.

The business has been growing at a fantastic rate and has moved to a new location 3 times the size of our previous digs. I expect this summer season to be great!

Please enjoy our products as I strive to keep product quality, value and customer service at the highest possible levels.

Thank You All!

John Jamieson