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January 22, 2025 58 mins

#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.

Bert's website - www.dexterityeng.com

 

 

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