Greetings!
This
week's guest introduction is from Stu Lumsden, VP of
Engineering at Polk Audio and ALMA
President:
The Winter Symposium 08 will end my two-year term
as president. ALMA has made significant progress
this over this period; finding and installing a new
executive director, increasing international
membership, improving the depth and value of the
symposiums in Vegas AND China, establishing a
liaison for standards with the AES, beginning
associations with other technical and trade
organizations, and promoting a community of common
interest for the loudspeaker industry that spans the
globe. I applaud the efforts of the executives, board of
directors, committee chairs and other volunteers who
have made this possible. I also thank the efforts of our
Executive director Zarina Bhimani.
I
look forward to seeing all of you, new members and old,
in Las Vegas at the 2008 Winter Symposium. This
year I expect the turn out at the Winter Symposium to
be even greater than the 40% increase that we
realized last year. We will be offering FREE EXHIBIT
HALL ADMISSION on Sunday to give those who know little
about ALMA an easy way to find out more and to
provide getting more traffic to exhibitors. I also
personally recommend the "Practical Loudspeaker Design"
training class as a way of pushing new employees up the
learning curve and making them become effective in
design or manufacturing more quickly. This is only a
fraction of what will be offered. Please read the
additional information below, register and
attend.
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We still
have a few tabletop exhibit booths
left. We are on track to have even more exhibitors than
last year, so it should be a great show! A tabletop
booth is only $600 for full members (additional
membership fee applies for non-members). This fee includes a draped table and 2
chairs, a sign with your company name and 2 exhibit hall
only staff passes which include lunch. All you need to
do is show up and put your products and literature on
the table. You won't find a better value
exhibition booth! Please call me at (617) 314-6977 if you
have any questions.
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Training Class - Peter
Larsen
 Last year Peter
Larsen's training class, "Practical Aspects of
Loudspeaker Design", was sold out, so we are re-running
it to give more people an opportunity to attend.
Although it was described by one of last years attendees
as 'the perfect training for a new engineer who needs to
rapidly get up to speed with the basic principles of
loudspeaker design', many industry veterans also rated
it highly. The course fee includes a copy of Peter's
book 'Better Loudspeaker Designs in
Practice'. Other
training courses include "Electroacoustic Measurements"
by Christopher Struck and "Adhesives: Selection and
Application for Loudspeaker Assembly" by Dan
Alb.
More
Info
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Technical
Papers
 The four technical
papers that have been selected for presentation at the
ALMA Symposium are:
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Standard
Measurements of Active Loudspeaker Systems -
Wolfgang Klippel, Klippel GmbH (this
paper will be followed by a short discussion
session)
- Practical Loudspeaker
Applications of Time-Frequency Analysis -
Steve Temme, Listen, Inc.
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Thermal Chimney
Heat Extraction - Enrique Stiles, STEP
Technology Inc.
- A Study of Ferrofluid Behavior
in a Speaker Gap - Steve Tatarunis, Menlo
Scientific, Ltd., K. Raj, & Vanessa Rene, Ferrotec
(USA) Corp.
More Info & Paper
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Exhibitor Profile: KSC
Industries  KSC
Industries will be showing their Digmoda Professional
Power Amplifier Systems with integral D-Pro DSP filters,
crossovers and delay, which enable loudspeaker
manufacturers to create and voice self-powered
loudspeaker systems. The combination of powerful,
easy-to-use D-Pro calibration software, coupled with
fully adjustable onboard signal processing,
significantly reduces product development time by
allowing an OEM manufacturer to eliminate
frequency-response, time, phase and power anomalies in
real time. Once completed, system adjustments are simply
and easily loaded into the plate amplifier's
non-volatile flash memory during loudspeaker production.
A complete line of Digmoda Plate Amplifiers is available
in a variety of power-delivery levels and
configurations.
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Full Schedule and Attendee
Booking Form
The full schedule for the event, along
with the booking form, is now available for download
from our website. Sign up now to secure your place.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
A range of sponsorship opportunities are
available, and we can tailor a package to your needs. Contact
ALMA for more information.
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ALMA is
happy to issue invitation letters to help you get a visa to
travel to the US. Please email ALMA if you require an
invitation letter, and let us know if you would like to attend
as a visitor or exhibitor.
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