Audio Electronics and Acoustics Consulting Services

The Automotive Audio System Design Seminar

This 2 day design seminar is aimed at car audio system designers. This seminar consists of 280+ slides packed with complete information about virtually all aspects of how to design an automotive audio system.

The seminar is divided into seven parts including five formal learning elements and one informal vehicle evaluation element. Many picture slides and music demonstrations keep the class lively and interesting.

When your employees have completed this course, they will be better equipped to develop effective system designs, select better valued components and help you build better sounding vehicles.

Audio Systems Design Seminar

Seminar Outline

The following outline shows some of key elements covered:

Part 1. Customer Expectation and System Evaluation

• What do customers want?
• Is brand important?
• The Audio System Design Target
• Subjective and objective audio evaluation methods

Part 2. Loudspeaker Choice, Specification and Measurement

• Choosing speaker sizes and types
• Specifying a loudspeaker
• Relevant loudspeaker measurements

Part 3. System Installation Guidelines

• Speaker positioning and the transfer function
• Polar Patterns and Aiming
• Sealing, Covering and Enclosures

Part 4. Audio Electronics Considerations

• Amplifier Power and Clipping Management
• Equalization
• Loudness and Sound Processing
• Avoiding "MORE" and Listening like a Pro

Part 5. Multichannel in Automobiles (New Section)

• Customer needs modified?
• Types of Multichannel
• Stereo multichannel switching
• "Too much" center
• Surrounding ambiance

Part 6. Design Choices and Tuning

• Understanding goals and constraints
• Making final choices
• Tuning equipment and methods

Part 7. Vehicle Evaluation

Following the more formal part of the course, usually on the following day, the class performs listening evaluations of employee and/or company vehicles.

For this evaluation section, class participants are divided into two or three groups. They are quickly taught an abbreviated listening evaluation method, and their evaluation results are compared with that of a trained listener and with response measurement data. Some groups achieve very surprising and quite good results.

More Detail about the Seminar

A PDF with more information about the seminar can be found here

We're Flexible

The audio system design seminar, as well as any of our training courses, can be modified, and new courses can be developed to meet your requirements.

Please contact Stroud Audio to see how we can add our skills to those of your engineering team.