Dr. Wolfgang Klippel

Wolfgang Klippel studied electrical engineering at the University of Technology in Dresden, in the former East Germany, where his initial studies focused on speech recognition. Afterward, he joined a loudspeaker company in eastern Germany, where he was engaged in transducer modeling, acoustic measurement, and psychoacoustics. He returned to his studies and received a Ph.D in Technical Acoustics in 1987. After a post-doctoral year at the Audio Research Group in Waterloo, Canada, and working at Harman/JBL in Northridge, CA, he returned to Dresden in 1997 and founded Klippel GmbH. This company develops novel control and measurement systems for loudspeakers and other transducers. Dr. Klippel has also been engaged as Professor of Electro-acoustics at the University of Technology in Dresden since 2007. His papers and tutorials on loudspeaker modeling and measurement – particularly those on large-signal behavior and physical distortion mechanisms – are considered reference works in the field.