Since April 1996 the engineers at Sanjan Nagar have been developing a range of amplifiers and speakers under the name of ‘Bhulley’. Initially the work mostly revolved around altering designs of commercially available Valve based Class A amplifiers and redesigning speaker cabinets using components such as drivers (tweeter, woofers etc), transformers, etc as readily available from the market.
Now twelve years later, the only component that is not made in the department are the electron valves used in the amplifiers. The main concern behind this work has been that when sound reaches the listener’s ear, it should be a relaxed musical sound, which retains its musical integrity qua the source. This task has involved translating the understanding of the elements of musical sound such as timbres, resonances, body (in sound), harmonics, etc., and how they are put together to produce musicality in musical sound into the science and engineering of audio amplifier, and speaker systems.
Thus, continuous work has been and is taking place in philosophizing, theorizing and developing new concepts and then testing them experimentally in the design and construction of these systems.
In the words of Raza Kazim:
“The objective of the Institute is to discover and establish through knowledge, reason and verification, a framework of theory and practice in an effort to contribute towards a new and superior civilization emerging in our time. The Institute symbolizes my answer to the age-old question of human misery and happiness: taking the next step in human evolution through mental intelligence.”
Consistent with its conceived vision, SIPA has functioned as a dynamic social laboratory, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity and innovation.
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