All items tagged with Menlo Scientific (168)
Celebrate 35 Years of Voice Coil with the November 2021 Edition
October 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Celebrate 35 Years of Voice Coil with the November 2021 Edition

This edition celebrates 35 years of Voice Coil, the Periodical for the Loudspeaker Industry. We discuss a new earphone technology for Balanced Frequency Range, Mike Klasco writes about Subwoofers and Bass, and James Croft reviews a new loudspeaker patent from Tymphany. Finally, Vance Dickason places Purifi Audio’s PTT4.0X04-NFA-01 Home Audio Midbass, and Eighteen Sound’s AMT200P AMT driver and XMT200 waveguide on the Test Bench. Now available in print or download.
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APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions
September 23, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

APEI Discusses Mitigation Strategies for Component Shortages and Supply Disruptions

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) presents a new webinar in its Supply Chain & Sourcing education pillar, addressing current component shortages, logistics challenges and manufacturing and supply disruptions. David Lindberg (DB Enterprises) and Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) invited senior executives from Seltech International and Emporium Partners - two companies with extensive experience in supply chain services - to outline this dynamic global environment, and define mitigation strategies for the audio industry.
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Audio Product Education Institute Discusses Automotive Audio Supply Chain Challenges
August 28, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Audio Product Education Institute Discusses Automotive Audio Supply Chain Challenges

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) promotes an online event to discuss the challenges in the automotive supply chain, specifically in the perspective of those companies and professionals working in automotive audio and acoustics. The event, Wednesday, September 1 (12pm EDT), will outline the evolution and growing product development requirements for automotive audio, while APEI's education pillars experts will share lessons learned from suppliers and actual cases.
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New AES/APEI Webinar Focused on Audio Products Test and Manufacturing Strategies
July 23, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

New AES/APEI Webinar Focused on Audio Products Test and Manufacturing Strategies

Audio test and measurement solutions supplier Audio Precision, and Instrumental, an AI-powered discovery, analysis and real-time monitoring manufacturing solutions provider, join the AES Audio Product Education Institute in a webinar that focuses on the factory floor and the very specific production line challenges. Wednesday, July 28 2021 (12PM EDT), the two companies will detail cutting-edge solutions and strategies for detecting and solving production problems and inefficiencies, focusing on audio product examples.
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Dinaburg Speaker with Dual Diffuser - An Innovative Coaxial Driver Design with a Passive Ring Radiator
June 25, 2021 by Mike Klasco

Dinaburg Speaker with Dual Diffuser - An Innovative Coaxial Driver Design with a Passive Ring Radiator

Recently, Dinaburg Technology, based in Dallas, TX, was issued their first US patent for an electro-dynamic loudspeaker with an integrated coaxial passive ring radiator. Mikhail Dinaburg, noted physicist and the patent inventor, uncovered some missing elements in previous coax and passive radiator work and set out to prove it. Dinaburg’s patent discloses techniques for higher performance sound reproduction, enabling lower distortion, extended frequency range, higher efficiency, and improved speech intelligibility. The invention has wide applications and scales from a earphone driver to near-field studio monitors, ceiling speakers, under couch subwoofers to the largest concert subwoofers.
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AES APEI Webinar to Explore How Design Houses Add Value to Audio Product Development
June 18, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES APEI Webinar to Explore How Design Houses Add Value to Audio Product Development

The always insightful series of Audio Product Education Institute webinars focusing on Supply Chain & Sourcing provide a unique opportunity to understand the full product cycle, from vision to market. In a new online event, Wednesday June 23 (12pm ET), David Lindberg (DB Enterprises) and Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) invite Phnam Bagley (Nonfiction Design), and David Waterman (Deep Blue Design) to discuss how design houses can be a critical option supporting brands in all critical stages.
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Promotes Weekly Online Events During the Month of June
May 31, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES Audio Product Education Institute Promotes Weekly Online Events During the Month of June

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), an initiative launched in January 2020 by the Audio Engineering Society, will promote a strong sequence of weekly online sessions in June 2021. The first event is already June 2, and focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, followed by sessions on Automotive Audio, Modeling and Measurement, and Supply Chain and Sourcing.
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market
March 12, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), will host its sixth online event addressing Supply Chain & Sourcing on Wednesday, March 17 (12:00pm EDT). The online session will feature top executives from Cardinal Peak and One Point Zero discussing the role and contributions of design houses as a critical support option in bringing new products to market.
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Loudspeaker Knowledge Inside and Out in Voice Coil March 2021
February 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Loudspeaker Knowledge Inside and Out in Voice Coil March 2021

In this edition of Voice Coil, Steve Temme explains "How to Measure Free-Field Speaker Response without an Anechoic Chamber," Mike Klasco writes about "Plastics and Composites for Audio Products in 2021," and there's an updated Speaker Enclosure Vendor Directory. James Croft provides a fascinating patent review of a speaker assembly design for low-frequency control using an acoustic dipole. And Vance Dickason characterizes two new tweeters: the D2404 Ellipticor Tweeter from Scan-Speak, and the Satori AT60NC-4 AMT Tweeter from SB Acoustics. Now available in print and online!
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Voice Coil January 2021 Is Now Available in Print and Digital!
December 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Voice Coil January 2021 Is Now Available in Print and Digital!

Looking forward to serving the loudspeaker industry for another year, Voice Coil starts strong with a focus on Headphone OEM Devices and Parts, and a Spotlight article on speaker design, written by Brian Cho, the CEO of Resonado Labs. In his first Acoustic Patents column for 2021, James Croft writes about a signal processing system, allowing users to control a lower frequency acoustic range of a loudspeaker system, and Vance Dickason kicks off his Test Bench characterizations with the new Bold North Audio BWX-6502 Midbass, and the Wavecor TW022WA09 22mm textile dome tweeter.
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