2007 Winter Symposium: Training Classes: Dan Digre

Dan Digre

Dan Digre has been President and General Manager of MISCO/Minneapolis Speaker Company since 1990. MISCO was started in 1948 by his father, Cliff Digre, a former ALMA President and current Board Emeritus.  Dan began in the loudspeaker industry at age 6 cleaning the catsup and cob webs out of drive-in theater speakers and by the time he was 16 was reconing just about everything. He has a BA in Music Education, Composition, and Vocal Performance from Augustana College, Sioux Falls and an MBA from St. Thomas University, St. Paul.

For the past 20 years at MISCO, he has been responsible for overseeing product design and development of new transducers ranging in size from 1.5” to 15” for a wide variety of loudspeaker applications including signaling, gaming, voice communications, military and avionics, and home and car stereo.  Dan has been a long time member of AES and active in the Midwest chapter hosting chapter meetings.  He also teaches the fundamentals of loudspeakers both at MISCO and to Twin Cities’ area students.

Dan has been an active board member of ALMA since 1986, serving as ALMA president from 1998 - 1999

Loudspeakers 101 for Non-technical Professionals - Dan Digre (Misco / Minneapolis Speaker Comany)

4 hours - Cost $175 (members) / $225 (non-members)

This class is designed for sales, purchasing, or general management who are non-technical, but must need to acquire more knowledge of the terminology and function of loudspeakers. Topics include the basic principles of sound, how a speaker works, the parts of a loudspeaker and their function, electrical, acoustical and specification terminology. The class will include demonstration of many of these items as well.  Each participant will receive a booklet that will include the material covered plus a more in-depth presentation of each topic. 

"The ALMA Speakers 101 class was very beneficial for me as a Marketing Director. The class was highly informative, focusing on the materials and parts that make up a loudspeaker and how they effect its specifications. The class consisted of a total of 8 people from manufacturing companies who worked in the production, purchasing and marketing fields. We learned how key specs can be, what they mean exactly and why they’re important. I know and appreciate so much more about speakers now and highly recommend this class to anyone who has any involvement with speaker manufacturing."

Andrea Renz, Marketing Director - Russound

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