Otherwise known as Houston, TX, I was a teen who played golf, built model airplanes, worked part-time in construction, and was really, really bad at designing speakers. It was fun, but if you’d told me it would one day be my life’s mission to bring people joy through awesome sound, I’d have told you I wasn’t up to the job.

I attended the University of Texas at Austin for electrical engineering, and my speaker hobby had to go on hiatus to study. <keyboard absconded with> There I met the amazing, super understanding SpeakerSpouse (aka Jennifer), who lets me fill our house with giant speaker experiments, despite the fact that they take up the space in the garage where her car should fit. 

After college (that’s uni to you Brits), I worked various engineering jobs while honing my speaker skills on the side through research, math, and a lot of trial and error. I helped moderate a speaker forum on Facebook (anyone remember Facebook?) and started my own group when I released the design for a simple but effective reference monitor people could build for themselves. Thus the increasingly inaccurately named world of DIYRM (Do It Yourself Reference Monitor) was born. 

The more I learned, the more I realized that, well, a lot of people are wrong about speakers on the internet. So I combined my knowledge of electrical engineering and my love of speaker experimentation to write papers that debunk false claims, test my own wild theories, and help others build better speakers for themselves. Now, my wife shakes her head and sighs whenever I say, “Honey, somebody’s wrong about speakers on the internet!” because she knows I’ll be disappearing for a few days into the space where her car should be for a whirlwind of mad science and sound. 

Now, by day I work in energy research, helping put more renewable energy on the grid (the Earth ain’t gonna cool itself). But at night and on weekends, I grab my cape and mask to emerge as SpeakerScott, designer of divine sound and righter of all things wrong about speakers on the internet.

P.S. If you can’t tell, the SpeakerSpouse wrote this, but I… mostly approve. 

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