Siegfried Linkwitz (November 23, 1935 – September 11, 2018) was a German American

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

who was noted co-inventor of the

Linkwitz–Riley filter A Linkwitz–Riley (L-R) filter is an infinite impulse response filter used in Linkwitz–Riley audio crossovers, named after its inventors Siegfried Linkwitz and Russ Riley. This filter type was originally described in ''Active Crossover Net ...

Linkwitz Crossover Theory
/ref> along with Russ Riley. He submitted several important technical papers to the ''Journal of the Audio Engineering Society'' and other related publications, which have become foundational to modern loudspeaker theory. Examples of his most recent work included extensive development of

dipolar In physics, a dipole () is an electromagnetic phenomenon which occurs in two ways: *An electric dipole deals with the separation of the positive and negative electric charges found in any electromagnetic system. A simple example of this system i ...

loudspeaker A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound. A ''speaker system'', also often simply referred to as a "speaker" or ...

theory. Linkwitz was also a contributor to electronics and "

DIY "Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals use raw and sem ...

" loudspeaker enthusiast magazines such as ''Electronics (Wireless) World'', and '' Speaker Builder'' magazines. He died in 2018 at the age of 82.

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linkwitzlab.com
1935 births 2018 deaths American acoustical engineers American technology writers German emigrants to the United States Stanford University alumni Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni People from Bad Oeynhausen {{US-engineer-stub