AES Technical Committee

Automotive Audio

Chair:    Roger Shively      Send Email
Chair:    Hans Lahti      Send Email
Vice Chair:    Pat Dennis      Send Email
Vice Chair:    Martin Kreissig      Send Email

The Mission of this committee is to:

- Encourage the development of technical papers workshops, tutorials, master classes and poster sessions in the field of automotive audio

- Promote awareness of new trends and developments that may impact Automotive audio

- Encourage technical communications within the vehicular audio community

- Propose the development of new automotive audio standards

- Create an awareness within the larger audio community of the engineering challenges and excellence of premium vehicular audio

- Discuss unique applications of audio transducers into the automotive environment


Areas of Concentration

- Automotive Transducers

- Vehicular System Design

- Objective System Evaluation

- Subjective System Evaluation

- New Audio Sources and Music Delivery Systems

- Automotive Mulitchannel Sound and 3D

- Noise production and cancellation

- Amplifiers

- Loudness

- Advanced DSP

- Industrial Design

- Loudspeaker Integration/Packaging

- Vehicle Sound Design

- Sound Field Control

Current Areas Of Work

- Whitepaper for Frequency Response, Max SPL and Impulsive Distortion measurement

- Automotive loudspeaker measurements

- Common best practice

Recent/Planned Activities

Planned Activity:

AES conference on Automotive Audio

Planned for June 2024 in Europe

Recent Activity:

2022, Detroit, https://aes2.org/event-extra/aes-2022-international-automotive-audio-conference-venue/

2019, Neuburg an der Donau, https://www.aes.org/blog/2019/8/aes-international-automotive-audio

In-Vehicle Acoustical Measurements Whitepaper

The in-vehicle acoustical measurements whitepaper is finally ready for release of beta version 1.0! Copy and paste the following link for:

- Whitepaper draft - beta version

- Tester package instructions

- Folder containing the test stimuli

- Folder for acquisitions to be processed

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1cT0AVVReMoMXAyxylhEJh__oKG4_p4uZ__;!!Bbg-OcCDlOs!A-6majMqDQNlsA7y__qPRldWv4DzJF3X2K477Z_jX2drSRtPtaSpac-p4oFeuzWH04TY6f_LcXHGdW0vrTAuEA4jhQ$


Meeting Report:

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Technical Report:

2019-4-11     AES 146th Dublin - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Auto Audio - J. Schlechter
Description: Presentation during Workshop - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Automotive Audio System by Joachim Schlechter

2019-4-11     AES 146th Dublin - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Auto Audio - R. Kassier
Description: Presentation during Workshop - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Automotive Audio System by Rafael Kassier

2019-4-11     AES 146th Dublin - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Auto Audio - S. Temme
Description: Presentation during Workshop - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Automotive Audio System by Steve Temme

2019-4-11     AES 146th Dublin - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Auto Audio - R. Shively
Description: Presentation during Workshop - Impact and Audibility of Distortion in Automotive Audio System by Roger Shively


Committee Members

 David Prince  Scott Leslie  Xiaojun Qiu 
 Matt Black  Ben Lisle  Kirthan EthirajuluKalaivani 
 Spencer Shively  Jonathan Zonenshine  John Moloney 
 John Pelliccio  Syeda Ghani  Alan Norton 
 W.A. Deutsch  Marshall Buck  Dan Field 
 Peter Mapp  Earl Geddes  Eric Benjamin 
 Alan Phillips  Jonathan Lane  Matt Ruhlen 
 Martin Lindsay  John Stewart  Soren Bech 
 Sergio Liberman  Mark Ziemba  Kim Rishoej 
 Sean Olive  Steve Temme  Karlheinz Brandenburg 
 Conrad Cooke  Jim Stratman  Thomas Gmeiner 
 Jayant Datta  Roger Shively  Ed Maniet 
 Todd Welti  Steve Hutt  Roy Delgado 
 Ruediger Fleischer  Scott Orth  Kevin Heber 
 Jyri Huopaniemi  Guy A. Torio  Thomas Sporer 
 Angelo Farina  Heiko Henkelmann  Arndt Hensgens 
 Matthew Watson  Jan Pedersen  Sean Thomson 
 Brett Hanes  John Busenitz  Wolfgang Klippel 
 Kevin Bastyr  Ryan Mihelich  Emanuele Ugolotti 
 Dave Baehr  Fabio Cagnetti  Tyrone Hunter 
 Geoff Hill  Brian Sterling  Hans Lahti 
 Michael Truman  Timo Esser  Michael J. Strauss 
 Robert Franks  Wolfgang Hess  Richard S Stroud 
 William L Martens  Kenneth Deetz  Dave Wilson 
 Robert Hartman  Christof Faller  John Yungman 
 Bradley Eid  Alan Trevena  Wontak Kim 
 Andreas Ehret  Alexandre Fenieres  Kelvin Griffiths 
 Jean-Philippe Dupire  Krestian Pedersen  Toby Newman 
 Viv Railton  George Weaver  Philipp Krejci 
 Matthias von Saint-George  Morten Lydolf  Jon Zenor 
 Josh King  Jeff Vautin  Andrew Goeppner 
 Brent Karley  Volker Hochwald  Jason Kemmerer 
 Roger Kessler  Soonkwon Paik  Reinhard Gretzki 
 Jay Krusac  Jonathan Pierce  Christian Hoene 
 Tyler Walker  Akshay Khanna  Peter Perzlmaier 
 Matt Jones  Armin Hoh  Genaro Woelfl 
 Christopher Matthews  Pat Dennis  Marc Levasseur 
 Veronique Larcher  Daniel Foley  Thomas Heed 
 Sarah Hoelscher  Stefan Varga  Luke Blaszczynski 
 Christophe Macours  Armin Prommersberger  Jerome Halley 
 Marcin Kalinowski  Pietro Massini  Stefan Holzhäuser 
 Hans Juergen Regl  Chen Chienhao  Wilfried Van Baelen 
 Rafael Kassier  Paul Beckmann  Florian Rill 
 Shelley Uprichard  Piergiovanni Bazzana  Jeff Tackett 
 Benedetto Altieri  Hessam Alavi  Thomas Beer 
 George Perkins  Arnold Knott  Christian Uhle 
 Renato Yamane  Yu Du  Jigar Kapadia 
 Toni Treichel  Tom Morrow  Kai Inha 
 Tony Zhang  Fré Jorritsma  Frédérick Jehle 
 Ryan Henry  Lawrence Iviani  Jonatan Ewald 
 Divya Sishtla  Daniel Zimmermann  Timo Fischer 
 Jakub Honkisz  Lucy Diggle  Callum Hubbard 
 Garrett Laskowski  Martin Berg  Michael Adenauer 
 George Fryer  Peter Pörs  Andrew Manns 
 Balazs Kakonyi  Tacksung Choi  Wolfram Jaehn 
 Stefan Finauer  Shinkyu Kang  Hebert Etzel 
 Seno Adi Wibowo  Sandra Brix  Glenn Cass 
 Jungwoo Han  Steffen Bergweiler  Stefan Behr 
 Simon Woollard  Juliano Medeiros  Tom Breithaupt 
 Stefan Irrgang  Dave Ernst  David Navone 
 Siegmund Schreiber  Christopher Herold  Frederico Conte 
 Patrick Putzolu  Dersheet Mehta  Steve Swanson 
 john Feng  Ken Kantor  Gregor Höhne 
 Rishi Daftuar  Joe D'Angelo  Markus Christoph 
 Jonathan Christian  Mark Kalman  Oliver Alic 
 Edgar Kirk  Jurgen Gach  Neil Pedinoff 
 Carsten Schulz  Marco Castro  Nigel Fletcher 
 Andreas Fritsch  Robert Hewitt  Richard Clark 
 Imre Csonka  Steve Hoshaw  Jung Uk Noh 
 Hiroyoshi Imai  Thomas Bachmann  Samira Mohamady 
 Brian Leu  Martin Kreissig  Greg Sikora 
 Thomas Guignard  Thilo Stompler  James Thompson 
 Henry Hou  Bartlomiej Kukulski  Alex Porchia 
 Francesco Baccelli  Wesam Ishaq  Viktor Dobos 
 Francesca Nucibella  Jeroen De Rycke  Stefan Dorr 
 Matteo Nucci  Manuel Perucci  Maja Gagic 
 Vito Di Fonzo  Stefan Meyer  markus koch 
 David Dubrow  Norman Gerkinsmeyer  Joachim Schlechter 
 So Youn MOON  Philipp Paul Klose  Larissa Kocher 
 Michele Pontillo  Kenneth Ward  Friedrich von Türckheim 
 Tyler Kent  Laurent Gagliardini  Michael Martin 
 Donald Schulz  Matthew Dryden  Michael Fabry 
 Gerald Moser  Florian Walter  Fabien Elies 
 Mael Pouget  Lars Carlsson  Jan Giese 
 BYUNGSUN KIM  JUYOUNG JEON  Sofia Checa 
 Tomas Choura  Michel Hahn  Anthony Legrand 
 Upendra Chauhan  Agnieszka Oltarzewska  Rembert Serrus 
 Dohyeon Son  Tony Haberman  Moritz Ströer-Karuga 
 Daniel Haikin  Jeroen Lanslots  Martha Perressim 
 Eli Ellison  Sergejs Dombrovskis  Gaurav Agnihotri 
 Jacobo Giralt  Mike Grant  Ian Hubbard 
 Michele Buccoli  Sophia Emmert  Julian Oser 
 Steve Ernst  Frank Valeri  Sean Carter 
 Joshua Wheeler  Andreas Pfeffer  Andreas Pfeffer 

To request membership in this Technical Committee please email the Chair by using the link above.

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