 Shortly after this reunion, Crooks offered McKinney the licensing to build and market Standels, with Crooks as technical advisor.For the next 10 years (1997-'07), they built Standels at the Requisite Audio Engineering shop in Glendale, California, 17 miles from the original Standel factory.Over the next two years, Crooks's health began to fail and, in 1999, he died at 79 years.