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

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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2023-12-19     TC-AA webmeeting minutes for 12/13/23
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2023-10-27     TC-AA Hybrid Meeting Minutes 10/26/23
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2023-3-30     TC-AA Web Meeting Minutes 03/29/23
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2021-10-8     TC-AA NAS (NVH) 10/8/21 Meeting Minutes
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2021-9-2     NVH Subcommittee Meeting Minutes 8/30/21
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2020-10-30     TC-AA Web Meeting During 149th Online Convention held on 10/27/20
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2019-12-20     TC-AA Web Meeting 12/17/19 Minutes
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2019-10-25     TC-AA NY 147th Meeting 10/18/19 Minutes
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2019-1-3     TC-AA Web Meeting 12/12/18 Minutes
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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  Kirthan EthirajuluKalaivani 
 Spencer Shively  Jonathan Zonenshine  John Moloney 
 John Pelliccio  Syeda Ghani  Alan Norton 
 Alessandro Travaglini  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  Josh King  Jeff Vautin 
 Andrew Goeppner  Brent Karley  Volker Hochwald 
 Jason Kemmerer  Roger Kessler  Soonkwon Paik 
 Reinhard Gretzki  Jay Krusac  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 
 Alex Porchia  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  Kenneth Ward 
 Friedrich von Türckheim  Tyler Kent  Laurent Gagliardini 
 Michael Martin  Donald Schulz  Matthew Dryden 
 Michael Fabry  Gerald Moser  Florian Walter 
 Fabien Elies  Mael Pouget  Lars Carlsson 
 Jan Giese  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  Sophia Emmert 
 Julian Oser  Steve Ernst  Frank Valeri 
 Sean Carter  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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