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AES Technical Committee

Loudspeakers and Headphones

Chair:    David Clark    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    Juha Backman    (Send E-mail)

The committee works to ensure that the AES membership has the opportunity to learn of relevent new transducer technology as it develops, with an emphasis on sound field generation from loudspeakers and headphones.


Areas of Concentration

  • Transducer Design
  • Electronic Processing Techniques
  • Distortion Analysis
  • Evaluation and Measurement Techniques

Current Areas Of Work

  • Magnetic Finite Element Analysis Workshop
  • Survey of new technologies
  • Anechoic Low-Frequency Measurements

Recent/Planned Activities

  • Headphone Workshop
  • Distortion Modeling Workshop
  • Parameter Workshop
  • Loudspeaker Basics Tutorial
  • Vibration Transducers Workshop
  • Low-Frequency Measurements Workshop
  • Loudspeaker/room automatic equalization Workshop


Committee Members

 Joe Klippel  Tyrone Hunter  Giues Milot 
 Edgar Kirk  Gottfried Schmid  Francesco Tordini 
 Ben Houghton  Paul Berry  Michael Zirkel 
 Florian Konig  Karl Kerstein  Brian Fligor 
 Ken Kantor  Jurgen Ringlstetter  Sean O'Brien 
 Mattia Cobianchi  Robert Klacza  Stefan Irrgang 
 Wendy Mittelstadt  Hans van Maanen  Richard Little 
 Bernd Ruprechter  David Robinson  Richard Small 
 David Clark  J M Woodgate  Don Keele 
 Laurie Fincham  Marshall Buck  Neville Thiele 
 Stanley Lipshitz  Peter Mapp  Earl Geddes 
 Allan Phillips  Philippe Herzog  John Stewart 
 John Vanderkooy  Mark Ziemba  Christopher Struck 
 Tom Nousaine  Erling Sandermann Olsen  David Carlstrom 
 Mark Dodd  Juha Backman  David Blore 
 Jim Stratman  Steve Hutt  Peter Brown 
 Giles Davis  Tom Wethern  Scott Orth 
 David Prince  Bob Zurek  Ulrich Horbach 
 Paul Barton  Alex Voishvillo  Ronald Sauro 
 Peter Svensson  Mario Di Cola  Aldoshima Irino 
 Doug Button  Neil Harris  Charles Hughes II 
 Knud Bank Christensen  Jason Linse  John Busenitz 
 Andrew Bright  Simone Koo  Massimo Navarri 
 Wolfgang Klippel  David Dage  Ryan Mihelich 
 Michael Howes  Roberto Magalotti  Geoff Hill 
 Brian Sterling  Michael Noll  Chris Larson 
 Timo Esser  Robert Franks  Richard S Stroud 
 Tim Mellow  Jason Weida  Kenneth Deetz 
 Markus Vaalgamaa  Rachel Cruz  Roger Schwenke 
 Alan Trevena  Michael Turner  Paul Apollonio 
 Volker Hochwald  Ian Kuhn  Jeff Koch 
 Sheila McFarland  Michael Santucci  Pat Dennis 
 Jesse Lippert 

To request membership in this Technical Committee please e-mail the Chair by using the link above.