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

Automotive Audio Trends

1. Increasing signal processing requirements for diverse audio features is driving increased computational demand

2. Higher on-board bandwidth requirements require new data transfer technologies (Ethernet, AVB, A2B)

3. Changes in amplifier/DSP hardware architecture due to increased software demand (e.g. multi-CPU)

3a) Audio Algorithms are being integrated in hte Cockpit Domain Controllers (formerly "head units" or a combination of remote amp and HMI)

4. Microphone arrays

5. Immersive/3D audio

6. Motorcycle/off-road premium/branded audio

7. Power/performance classification for engineering and marketing (see also AES2 2012 release)

7a) Real Efficiency (dB/current) & perceived loudness

8. Sound zones

9. In-Car Communications (ICC)

10. ANC/Sound design/Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems (AVAS)

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  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  Phil Simpkins 
 Josh King  Jeff Vautin  Andrew Goeppner 
 Brent Karley  Volker Hochwald  Jason Kemmerer 
 Roger Kessler  Soonkwon Paik  Reinhard Gretzki 
 Jay Krusac  Jeff Koch  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 
 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  Friedrich von Türckheim  Tyler Kent 
 Laurent Gagliardini  Michael Martin  Donald Schulz 
 Matthew Dryden  Michael Fabry  Gerald Moser 
 Fabien Elies  Mael Pouget  Lars Carlsson 
 Jan Giese  Kristoffer Gottschalk  Alan Norton 
 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  Julian Oser  Steve Ernst 
 Frank Valeri  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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