Audio Jobs...

jakelm

Just curious as to how many of us are in the audio buisness.

Audio, to many of us, is a passion. I, have a passion for DIY audio. But was very curious as to what type of jobs are avaliable for this type of "passion/tallent"?

Somebody has to build speakers, somewhere. So what type of education and/or studies, does someone have to have to get into the audio design buisness? Where to look?

Alot of us talk about and spend all of our pass-time dealing with new designs, new products and testings.

So with that said:

Would you consider doing it as a full time job? What would be a salary, you would like (realisticly)? What would you like to do, in the audio industry?

nms

I'm actually trying to get a summer job in my home town with a company that does equipment installation, live performance support, etc. I run the sound for my church when I'm home as a volunteer and I really enjoy it.

hockeyboy

I would love to be in National Sales for a terrific audio company. The trouble is that I am one of two national sales reps for a 700 million a year company, and unlikely to find a like paying job. Man I am sick of my job right now though.

jakelm

nms wrote: »

I'm actually trying to get a summer job in my home town with a company that does equipment installation, live performance support, etc. I run the sound for my church when I'm home as a volunteer and I really enjoy it.

Installs it one thing. Dont get me wrong, its great and alot of fun.

But I was speaking more along the line of speaker design. This would be something I would love to do for a living, but you never see an ad in the paper for speaker design help needed..lol

jakelm

Yor right Zero. To know someone who knows someone who knows someone, always helps.

Just curious how most, way back when, were not electronic engineers. Just guys with great imagination and tallent. I wish I was in that era again.

It really doesnt take an electronic egineer to build/design a speaker.

hearingimpared

I was and wouldn't mind again getting into design and manufacturing of tweeks for 2 channel audio. Just as before the money is no object I just really enjoyed the challenge, R & D, testing and manufacturing.

jakelm

hearingimpared wrote: »

I was and wouldn't mind again getting into design and manufacturing of tweeks for 2 channel audio. Just as before the money is no object I just really enjoyed the challenge, R & D, testing and manufacturing.

Yep, as many free hours I put in at home tweaking this and that, it could be a full time job.

janmike

My retirement job will be in the audio business. A few hours a week just so I do not go crazy. Or that I do not drive the wife crazy. Selling High End would be fun especially if you do not need the money.

ben62670

I am really serious about getting into designing HiFi on a MidFi budget. I have been spending so much time reading, repairing, modifying, and building stuff audio. The overly complicated designs of mass produced under built junk that is out there can be kept by the ****, and chinese. I want to build on tried, and true HiFi designs, and offer them at realistic prices. For my own personal use it started with speakers, and moved onto cables. I have fixed a lot of electronics, and have been messing with active filters, and preamp ideas lately. It is not rocket science to build some great quality stuff. One of the most rewarding endeavors has been the cables. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the performance of my 7 foot SDA's, sonosub, and a pair of SDA-SRS's that I built, but I can not share speakers as easily as cables. It is very gratifying to hear people comparing my cables to those that cost substantially more than the ones I build, and they like mine more than theirs.

I am definitely going to build a Pre/active filter that has selectable tube or SS stages. You would be able to change your whole system with a flick of the switch. Want SS on the lows, but tubes on the highs. No problem. Tube on both? No problem. A great recording just done right. SS high, and low;) I have some SACD's, and some Cd's that are just awesome SS, but I have a whole bunch that a tube buffer would just slap the edginess off the digital recordings. As it is I have not heard of one person here that has the ability to go from one to the other with the flick of the switch. People have one style rig, or the other. Some have both, or more. It took a lot of failures in cable design to get what I wanted, and was willing to put my name on. Its going to take some time to get what I want to show done with the electronics, but I am very excited about this project. I am so hoping to hook up with some locals in Ga that have my passion about audio. To me when I sit down in the sweet spot, and something I have done on the cheap just blows my mind is one of the best feelings. I literally get goose bumps, and the hair on the back of my neck stands up. Its well worth the frustration of many failures, and sleepless nights:)

20hz

I just saw a guy on ebay selling in 1 auction
2 sda's
2 monitor 10's
2 monitor 5's
This was for a 7.1 system than never happened, I would post the ebay # but I would not want people to think 20hz is a advertiser, I just saw it..
I thought club polksters should see this.

nms

20hz wrote: »

I just saw a guy on ebay selling in 1 auction
2 sda's
2 monitor 10's
2 monitor 5's
This was for a 7.1 system than never happened, I would post the ebay # but I would not want people to think 20hz is a advertiser, I just saw it..
I thought club polksters should see this.

It's been posted a few days ago. But yeah, hell of a 7.1 system!

Early B.

ben62670 wrote: »

I am definitely going to build a Pre/active filter that has selectable tube or SS stages. You would be able to change your whole system with a flick of the switch. Want SS on the lows, but tubes on the highs. No problem. Tube on both? No problem. A great recording just done right. SS high, and low;) I have some SACD's, and some Cd's that are just awesome SS, but I have a whole bunch that a tube buffer would just slap the edginess off the digital recordings. As it is I have not heard of one person here that has the ability to go from one to the other with the flick of the switch.

That's interesting. I recently ordered a customized piece of equipment that performs a similar function with a flick of the switch. It should arrive in the next couple of weeks.

I'm surprised no one (as far as I know) sells something like you're describing. Go for it. Build a selectable tube/SS/passive pre in one box so the customer has three options to choose from.

ben62670

Early B. wrote: »

That's interesting. I recently ordered a customized piece of equipment that performs a similar function with a flick of the switch. It should arrive in the next couple of weeks.

I'm surprised no one (as far as I know) sells something like you're describing. Go for it. Build a selectable tube/SS/passive pre in one box so the customer has three options to choose from.

Passive. I like that. I have a super simply passive that I built for testing that is really neat for nice clean simple listening. For my personal box I would still need to power the XO. I have done passive on the line level, and you loose too much of the music. Dying to see what you are getting.

Ben