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Ian White

Editor in Chief, Ian White has been stalking the consumer audio, home theater, and A/V world since 1998, long enough to remember when people actually read manuals and HDMI standards made sense. His work has appeared in eCoustics, The New York Times, Gear Patrol, Digital Trends, JAZZIZ, Big Picture Big Sound, SoundStage, Enjoy the Music, and The Jerusalem Post, covering everything from high-end audio and TVs to the slow, painful death of bad engineering ideas. He is a certified ISF calibrator and a former Lead Copywriter who spent years operating in the less cuddly corners of threat engineering and cybersecurity for clients across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The kind of work where NDAs are thicker than vault doors, three-letter agencies never quite introduce themselves, and even the coffee machine feels compromised. He holds academic degrees in Near Eastern Affairs, with minors in Judaic Studies and Forensic Science, and carries a worldview shaped by history rather than theory: he is the grandson of Holocaust survivors, descendant of Irgun founders, and was named after an IDF tank commander killed during the Yom Kippur War. Born in Toronto, Ian’s upbringing was anything but linear, ricocheting between Washington, D.C., Chicago, London, Northern Israel, and places best described as Dathomir and Arkham Asylum, before eventually landing in New Jersey and Florida because chaos, apparently, prefers warm weather and bad traffic. He was conceived at a drive-in movie theater (yes, really) and has since watched more than 5,700 films across eight countries, though he will still go to his grave insisting he waited only seven days, not eight, to see The Phantom Menace. He also brought kishka. Enough for everyone. Ian collects vintage film posters, books, and an alarming quantity of Detroit Red Wings and Washington Capitals memorabilia, enough to outfit a small rebellion. He is a professional-grade foodie and former pizza maker whose loyalties lie with dim sum, biltong, curry, pizza, deli sandwiches, pho, and Korean BBQ. If it bites back, he’s interested. Weekends find him juggling parenting duties, sitting in Shul, digging through records, scribbling in a Hemingway-inspired shawl cardigan, rewatching movies he’s already memorized, firing slapshots against the garage door like it’s Game 7, and casting into the Atlantic Gulfstream in pursuit of dinner, inspiration, and what's left of his moral compass.
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