The DeJitter it story

Long ago in a decade far away

Dejitter it is the latest outlet for my electronic engineering passion

Dejitter it is fundamentally just me, Chris Stephens

I do all the engineering and most of the assembly - because this produces the best results

The personalized craftsmanship making each device

 The passionate innovative engineering

This is what separates Dejitter it from assembly line produced high end audio devices

The guy making it is a lifelong audiophile

Each unit is made by the guy who designed it

Support is provided by the guy who made it

I have no interest in being any larger of a company

I just want to supply fun toys to other audiophiles in this crazy fun hobby

History - How I got here

1979

I made my first audio preamp and amp at the age of 19. These were from scratch designs not kits or copied circuits.

Op-amp, power supply and transistor theory all self taught in high school.

I got a job selling high end electronic test equipment like Tektronix, HP, Fluke to corporate and military/space companies. This led to extensive contact with engineers at high levels in all fields including space and military. This also led to having $100k ( 1979 $ ) test equipment I could take home and borrow to develop gear and science of my own. I also had good income. I gained contacts in analog chip companies like Analog Devices.

Pretty good for 19/20 years old.

This led to my first high end audio project.

I made a cryogenically cooled custom hybrid IC battery powered phono pre and main pre. Each stage used its own battery power for isolation for each stage. I used silver wire and 3D assembly topology shunning PC boards for point to point wiring. On most connections I welded rather then soldered using a micro torch used for jewelry because lead/tin ( solder ) was not a cubic faced crystal metal. The amp used 30 transistors per channel and was powered from a battery system 5 foot high, 2 feet deep and 12 foot wide. The amp made extensive use of symmetry and nodes done in 3D and the circuits looked more like art sculpture. For 1979 this was way more advanced then anything made for audio. I got all these ideas from my engineering contacts in space systems and my friends at Analog Devices plus my use of the best test equipment in the world allowed me to design circuits better then anyone else in audio by a huge margin.

This system produced stunning results I have yet to hear any device equal.

I made 4 of these systems for other audiophile friends. This was my first product I sold in 1980

Mostly I just worked in various unremarkable jobs in electronics and computers but kept high end audio engineering as a continuous hobby for the next decades and made / modded gear for audiophile friends while always advancing state of the art for audio engineering for my own use. I spent decades at night in front of test equip and breadboards

I went to school for my EE but mostly taught my instructor - big waste of money

I did learn materials science and physics all in relation to electronic devices

1990s-2020s

Thru a friend I decided to go full time into making high end media rooms. At the time surround systems were new. As a company with a bunch of employees we flew around the US taking high end 2ch gear and making surround systems with it. I also did a number of high end 2ch rooms. This was thru my company Ultimate Entertainment. We eventually decided to show up and do a room at the Stereophile HiFi 97 show. I showed a modified Vidikon CRT projector and modded Meridian speakers. We got best of show and a lot of press coverage in all the audio mags at the time. This is where my AV career really got started.

While I kept making high end rooms for clients all over the US and abroad I also  started tweaking and modding gear for these same clients making their systems better then anything else anyone could buy. This got the attention of the high end mfgrs and a number of them contacted me. The projector was the big one because it was a LOT better then anything else. No AB needed. It was just shockingly better. I partnered with DTS and did video and sound for them at CES shows that many people remember. I also worked with Teranex and created the first digital input projector. I worked with Vidikron and they were about to come out with a projector system based on my designs, but, Vidikron folded.

I decided to go fully on my own and created my own projector company and did a lot more work on the projector and showed this at CES 2001 in the DTS room. This was a huge hit and the projector system went to 3 top mags for review and I took product of the year in Stereophile Guide To Home Theater and Perfect Vision. This ended up being the best CRT projector ever made.

Like now, I made each one myself. I also installed each one and calibrated each one. We sold a bunch of these systems worldwide. There was a lot of press coverage.

I was flying all over the world nearly full time having spent a full year never seeing home once. This led to burn out and health issues. I left the industry and focused on doing work for a very select list of clients and did not take on any new clients. These clients had ultra high end rooms I made and were all high end hobbyists and audiophiles. Mostly they were friends. I went on doing custom electronics, mods and gear for these clients for 15 years quietly out of the sight of the press and industry. Also during this time I took up high performance networking as a hobby and deployed these systems in my clients homes

Then one day, I modded a AppleTV. The result was so cool I decided to make them for others. This resulted in tons of sales and I decided to stop doing full time work making rooms and continuously updating my select clients to the newest audio gear and creating new rooms in their new houses and focus on my long lost passion.

My passion from when I was 19 was engineering. Going where no one had gone before. I consider it my artform. So I decided to create a new company and focus on my passion, engineering and helping out other audiophile friends enjoy the hobby.

And here we are today

I have a lot of my old press coverage on a old personal web site

A construction walk thru of a typical room I have done, this is a playlist of 5 vids

This room has a press review

So when you buy a Dejitterit product your buying something hand made by a experienced old school craftsman who takes his engineering passion seriously and cares about every client and system.