Bob Metzler

Robert E. Metzler (b. July 28, 1934 in Plymouth, IN – d. Aug. 11, 2018) grew up in Indiana, Maryland and Chicago. He attended Manchester College in Indiana from 1952-1954, then lived in California and Southern Indiana where he was Chief Engineer for several radio stations and completed his physics degree at University of Louisville, before working as an electronics engineer for General Electric and other companies in Virginia.

In 1973 he moved to Portland to work for Tektronix.

In 1984, he left Tek with Bruce Hofer to found Audio Precision.

Products by Bob Metzler

Model	Class	Description	Designers	Introduced
SG5010	Plug-in	audio signal generator	Bruce Hofer • Bob Metzler • Richard Cabot • Bob Wright	1984