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

 Edgar Kirk  Gottfried Schmid  Francesco Tordini 
 Florian Konig  Karl Kerstein  Brian Fligor 
 Ken Kantor  Sean O'Brien  Mattia Cobianchi 
 Robert Klacza  Wendy Mittelstadt  Hans van Maanen 
 Robert Baum  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  Jim Stratman  Steve Hutt 
 Peter Brown  Giles Davis  Scott Orth 
 Bob Zurek  Paul Barton  Alex Voishvillo 
 Ronald Sauro  Aldoshima Irino  Doug Button 
 Neil Harris  Charles Hughes II  Jason Linse 
 John Busenitz  Simone Koo  Wolfgang Klippel 
 David Dage  Ryan Mihelich  Michael Howes 
 Richard Little  Roberto Magalotti  Geoff Hill 
 Brian Sterling  Timo Esser  Robert Franks 
 Richard S Stroud  Tim Mellow  Kenneth Deetz 
 Rachel Cruz  Roger Schwenke  Alan Trevena 
 Michael Turner  Paul Apollonio  Sheila McFarland 
 Michael Santucci  Pat Dennis  Jesse Lippert 
 Colin Bigland 

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

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