Steve Temme, Founder & President of Listen, Inc.
Steve Temme founded Listen in 1995.
Prior to founding Listen, Steve Temme worked for many years as an acoustic test and measurement applications engineer at Brüel & Kjær, and also as a loudspeaker design engineer at Apogee Acoustics. He holds a BSME from Tufts University, has authored numerous papers on acoustic testing, and has lectured extensively throughout the world.
Since starting Listen, Steve Temme has remained on the cutting edge of research into audio measurement, regularly introducing new measurement techniques, algorithms and hardware to enable testing of all kinds of devices ranging from basic transducers to complex audio systems. He is the author of countless published papers on audio measurement at AES, ALTI, ISEAT and other audio and electroacoustics conferences, and has authored many popular articles for industry publications.
Steve’s research interests have covered both improvements in production line test, as well as developing and extensive toolkit to meet the needs of R&D engineers, particularly as applications have diversified from simple transducers into multi-speaker systems and complex, internet-connected devices with on-board signal processing. Current active research topics include new techniques for distortion and spatial audio measurement.
