Hi guys are you aware of the best schools of speaker design, crossover design , speaker electronics etc ... in Denmark or Europe please ?
Your University of Denmark has a good history of audio subjects and Soren Bech there was involved with excellent research in psychoacoustics. As for speaker design, no one really teaches it directly. Find a good engineering school and take all the analog and digital network design you can find, plus physics, magnetics, acoustics, architectural acoustics and a little music theory.
Before you go too far you should look into the job market some and see whether this will realistically be a career or a hobby.
David S
Before you go too far you should look into the job market some and see whether this will realistically be a career or a hobby.
David S
There are no schools of speaker design. Engineering is split into various disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, civil, etc... the best fit of which is likely to be acoustical engineering although it is fairly rare as a first degree. DTU is the obvious one in Denmark, ISVR in the UK is perhaps the largest and best known but there are others. Salford in the UK run an Audio Acoustics degree. However, there tends to be an inverse relationship between specialisation of the course and status of the institution and degree.
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In Canada prof. John Vanderkooy (University of Waterloo) was heading such a gradute program in acoustics research. I know he cooperated with Bowers&Wilkins on their speakers, and I am guessing probably has ties to "Paradigm" since they are local to him.
In Canada prof. John Vanderkooy (University of Waterloo) was heading such a gradute program in acoustics research. I know he cooperated with Bowers&Wilkins on their speakers, and I am guessing probably has ties to "Paradigm" since they are local to him.
If there are no speaker design schools , how do those speaker designers create them ?? Where do they get the knowledge from ? :O
Actually I just want to do it cause it is my passion 🙂 And why not improve on the conventional speakers 🙂
Actually I just want to do it cause it is my passion 🙂 And why not improve on the conventional speakers 🙂
Hello, I think it's better to look for online courses or programs like MIT. If I were you, I'd choose either audio engineering, acoustics or electronics.
Possible variants:
Berklee Online
Audio and Music Engineering at the University of Rochester;
Columbia College Chicago - Audio Arts and Acoustics or Acoustics program
Online bachelor's in Electronics Engineering Technology at Grantham University
There's a Masters Degree in electroacoustics in Le Mans France, the only caveat is that they only take 12 students per year, so getting in would be difficult.
On the job aspect though, I think going in the acoustic engineering route is viable, as there is a high demand for acoustic engineers in the job market. They are needed for things you currently wouldn't really think of. For example, the automotive industry uses acoustic engineers for various design aspects of cars, the most obvious being exhaust tuning, then less obvious tasks like tuning the sound of the doors closing. The one thing to keep in mind is that if you are serious about taking this career path do not expect to immediately start building and designing speakers for a company, you might, but most likely not.
I am currently in a similar situation to you, but a little further along I imagine. I am about to finish my degree in Electrical engineering and now I have to make the decision of keeping audio strictly as a hobby and start a masters in EE, or if I want to pursue it as a career and take a masters course in Acoustic engineering.
I have a friend at my uni who is going to one of the Danish unis for a masters in acoustic engineering next year, I don't know exactly which one.
The bottom line is: if you want to make this your career you don't need to make the final decision right now, as I assume you don't have a bachelor's degree yet.
On the job aspect though, I think going in the acoustic engineering route is viable, as there is a high demand for acoustic engineers in the job market. They are needed for things you currently wouldn't really think of. For example, the automotive industry uses acoustic engineers for various design aspects of cars, the most obvious being exhaust tuning, then less obvious tasks like tuning the sound of the doors closing. The one thing to keep in mind is that if you are serious about taking this career path do not expect to immediately start building and designing speakers for a company, you might, but most likely not.
I am currently in a similar situation to you, but a little further along I imagine. I am about to finish my degree in Electrical engineering and now I have to make the decision of keeping audio strictly as a hobby and start a masters in EE, or if I want to pursue it as a career and take a masters course in Acoustic engineering.
I have a friend at my uni who is going to one of the Danish unis for a masters in acoustic engineering next year, I don't know exactly which one.
The bottom line is: if you want to make this your career you don't need to make the final decision right now, as I assume you don't have a bachelor's degree yet.
HAHAHAHa I didn't realise this thread was this old, didn't look at the date. My bad 😀
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