Mike Klasco

Over the last four decades Mike has consulted on hundreds of projects for large and small clients, including DuPont, Bell Labs, Nike, Intel, Microsoft, Yamaha, Teijin, Cisco, Echelon, 3Com, Armstrong World Industries, Johns Mansville, Owens Corning, Niles, NuTone, Polk, AuraSound, B&C, Klipsch, Ferrofluidics, Transilwrap, Apple, and Acer, among many others.

Notable projects include the long range (6 mile distance) sound systems in the DMZ between North and South Korea, sound system for the 1988 Olympic games in South Korea, the Microsoft X-box headset, the Dr. Dre headphone and commercialization of the Klippel KCS process with Nuvoton.

Mike has over 500 articles published in many electronics and audio magazines and technical journals and was the Technical Editor of Sound & Communications magazine for ten years, and to this day continues to be a regular contributor for audioXpress and Voice Coil magazines. Invited papers have been presented at the Acoustical Society of America, he has held positions as Session Organizer at the Audio Engineering society, Chairman of the Committee on Acoustics, and AES Life Member and a Pillar Chairman for the AES APEI education institute. He has a dozen patents licensed or assigned to the Variable Speech Control Company, Yamaha, Teijin, Armstrong World Industries, and others.