AES Member Profile

Richard Warren Little

Job Title: Founder and Owner
Company: Far North Electroacoustics

Status: Full Member
Member since: 1997
Technical Committee: Loudspeakers and Headphones
Section: Vancouver
Alt. Section: Vancouver

Contact: Richard Warren Little
LinkedIn Address: http://http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwlittle

Audio Fields:

• Product Manufacturing - Research & Development
• Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Hearing - Measurement and Instrumentation
• Consumer - Home
• Consumer - Car
• Consumer - Portable
• Product Manufacturing - Transducers

Job Duties:

• Acoustic Consultant
• Acoustician
• Consultant
• Engineer
• Researcher
• Software Designer

About

Richard Little is the founder and owner of Far North Electroacoustics, a "design house" located in the Vancouver Canada area, supporting audio transducer and loudspeaker design and development...while engaging in internal R&D efforts in the audio engineering field.

Most recently, Richard was the Director of Advanced Design for Tymphany HK Ltd., based in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China, where he worked on advanced R&D and future designs for Peerless branded audio products. He has been working in the loudspeaker engineering field since 1995, working at Boston Acoustics for 2 years, and in Bose Corporation's Automotive Systems Division for 8 years as a senior acoustics engineer, prior to joining Tymphany in 2005, and moving to Tymphany's China facilities in 2006.

Richard's expertise in transducer design and engineering includes magnetics engineering, computer modeling of transducer and systems behavior (multiphysics finite element analysis and "virtual engineering"), and reliability engineering. Richard's audio industry experience includes products for automotive OEM, home theatre, multimedia, automotive aftermarket, consumer electronics, and professional sound products.

Richard has been an active member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1997. He has published peer-reviewed papers published in the fields of acoustic engineering and non-destructive evaluation/testing, and has co-authored several patents in electroacoustic transducer design. Richard holds a B.Sc. in Honours Physics from the University of British Columbia (1992), and an M.Sc. in Physics from Queen's University at Kingston (1995), where he specialized in the field of Applied Magnetics.

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