Riden, Joseph: - Joseph Riden is a career industrial designer, mechanical engineer, and writer with a keen, lifelong interest in high-fidelity music. He has enjoyed owning high-end audio systems based on solid state and tube amplification, sourced from vinyl LPs, CDs, computer files, and web streaming. Joseph looks beyond components alone. By taking additional, relevant factors into account, such as anti-vibration and room acoustic conditioning, he creates the best possible playback a given audio system can produce.