Ralph Glasgal is a noted authority on data communications and digital networks, and has written three books and many articles on these subjects. Founder of the Ambiophonics Institute, he invented Ambiophonics in 1987 — conceived to provide concert-hall realism in the home primarily from existing recordings of classical music. Has written many AES research papers on psychoacoustics and sound recording / reproduction, as well as a book, Beyond Surround Sound to Virtual Sonic Reality (serialized on stereotimes.com). He has published many articles about high-end gear in Stereophile, Audio, The Audiophile Voice and Audio Video Interiors. Glasgal Island, just off the coast of Antarctica, has been named for him (to honor a 1957 / 58 expedition in which he took part), and he has reached the base camps of the 10 highest peaks in the world.