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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

 Allan Phillips  Bob Zurek  Charles Hughes II 
 David Clark  David Dage  Don Keele 
 Doug Button  Earl Geddes  Giles Davis 
 Jason Linse  Jim Stratman  John Busenitz 
 John Stewart  John Vanderkooy  Mark Ziemba 
 Marshall Buck  Peter Mapp  Richard S Stroud 
 Richard Small  Robert Franks  Ryan Mihelich 
 Stanley Lipshitz  Steve Hutt  Tom Nousaine 
 Michael Howes  Kenneth Deetz  Paul Barton 
 Mark Dodd  Timo Esser  Laurie Fincham 
 Wolfgang Klippel  Roger Schwenke  Brian Sterling 
 Christopher Struck  J M Woodgate  Alan Trevena 
 Erling Sandermann Olsen  Alex Voishvillo  Neil Harris 
 Scott Orth  Neville Thiele  Edgar Kirk 
 Gottfried Schmid  Francesco Tordini  Roberto Magalotti 
 Tim Mellow  Aldoshima Irino  David Carlstrom 
 Philippe Herzog  Juha Backman  Simone Koo 
 Michael Turner  Ronald Sauro  Geoff Hill 
 Paul Apollonio  Sheila McFarland  Peter Brown 
 Florian Konig  Karl Kerstein  Michael Santucci 
 Brian Fligor  Rachel Cruz  Ken Kantor 
 Pat Dennis  Richard Little  Sean O'Brien 
 Mattia Cobianchi  Robert Klacza  Jesse Lippert 
 Wendy Mittelstadt  Hans van Maanen  Colin Bigland 
 Robert Baum 

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

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