Audio Electronics and Acoustics Consulting Services

Audio Electronics and Acoustics Consulting

Our Company Stroud Audio Inc. was incorporated on 11 Sept 2001 in Kokomo, Indiana to provide audio and electronics consulting and engineering services to the audio products and automotive industry.

Our electronics workbench has seen numerous audio, amateur radio and other various small projects.

SAI has loudspeaker measurement equipment and powerful analysis software. Raw drivers, enclosed speakers and integrated systems can be easily and quickly measured.

We can design listening experiments and design listening rooms. We offer training packages for car audio design and tuning, skilled listening, electronic circuit design, and guitar amplfier design.

SAI's audio consulting capabilities are based primarily on the training and experience of Richard Stroud, its founder and president.

About Richard Stroud

Richard Stroud earned a BSEE w/honors degree in 1963 from North Carolina State University.

Richard brings to SAI over 35 years of design experience, including 33 years in electronics, audio and acoustics at Delphi Delco Electronics. Some of Richard's audio concepts are now a part of today's automotive receivers.

At Delphi, Richard was supervisor of the strong audio design team that lauched and supported the "Monsoon" audio system.

Richard is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the Society of Automotive Engineers. He currently serves as Chairman of the AES's Technical Committee on Automotive Audio.

He also serves as Organizer for the SAE Audio Systems Session, an activity he has served for over 25 years. He was also appointed SAE's Electrical and Electronics Activity Chairman and now serves as its past chairman.

Richard has written five technical papers for the Society of Automotive Engineers:

• "More":The Selling of Audio
• Masking Effects of Audio Systems with Non-Flat Frequency Response
• Reference vs. Preference: The "Surround" of Surround Sound
• Loudness Compensation in Motor Vehicles
• Low-Cost Audio for Automobiles

The papers above are offered for your use with the permission of SAE. Please read the information at the end of the papers before printing.

He has five patents:

• Magnetic Wheel Speed Sensor
• FM "Music History" signal processing (with others)
• Level translator for AGC system
• Audio Amplifier having Linear Gain Control
• Non-linear noise reduction system (with Mike McQuilling)

He has chaired and participated in numerous workshops for both the SAE and the AES.

Richard has written a paper for the AES: Quasi-Anechoic Measurement of Loudspeakers using Notch Equalization for Impulse Shortening presented in 2010 at the AES 129th Convention.

He has created and taught comprehensive electronic circuit design and audio installation courses both within Delphi, and at other companies.

Richard is a musician; guitar and bass player, singer, and songwriter. He built his first vacuum tube and transistor guitar amps and played at fraternity parties during his college years.

"Dick" has been a licensed Amateur Radio operator since age 15 (now W9KWG) and currently holds an Amateur Extra license. He has done much r.f. and antenna design and development in support of this hobby and other r.f. projects.

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