#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
