Steve Drake: Speakers in your suspension?

#32 – Steve Drake: Speakers in your suspension?

• Beers with engineers or wine-ing and designing?
• Steve worked at Bose – the Soundlink and the Wave CD radio.
• As a kid, he jumped off a roof with a trash bag as a parachute.
• Elsewhere, worked in electro-optics system group.
• Always been interested in acoustics and Bose was very close to home.
• Bose was a great place to work; high caliber people.
• Bose worked on car suspension.
• They also worked on suspension seats for trucks.
• Bose – big rich sound in a really small package
• Steve likes Klipsch speakers
• Helped unify different groups at Olympus
• Did some nice analysis on silicone for passive radiators in Bose speakers
• Sometimes test results that don’t make sense at first actually do when examined closely.
• He took an engineering approach to getting his daughter to nap better.
• Steve likes cooking. It’s more like jazz than engineering.
• "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee
• "Chemistry in the Kitchen" by Matthew Hartings
• Steve wants to go to Portugal, see the coast, and try the food.
• Croatia is also high on the list.

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