KEF’s Jack Oclee-Brown - Tangerine Waveguide | Blade Speakers | Uni-Q | Meta Materials | Lotus Cars | Aspirational Hi-Fi

This week, SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast host Jorden Guth is joined by Jack Oclee-Brown, VP of Technology at KEF, to discuss speaker design and engineering, the development of the Tangerine Waveguide, how electromechanical design and industrial design come together, KEF in cars, and more . . . 

Sources:

The Sweet Sound of KEF's Tangerine Waveguide: https://us.kef.com/blogs/news/the-sweet-sound-of-kef-s-tangerine-waveguide

"KEF Blade Loudspeakers" by Barry Jones: https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/516-kef-blade-loudspeakers

KEF x LOTUS Partnership: https://us.kef.com/pages/kef-lotus-partnership

Metamaterial Absorption Technology: https://us.kef.com/pages/metamaterial

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:20 Design choices and how they matter
00:20:22 Musical interlude: "Wanting You" by Jamison Dewlen
00:21:34 The value of aspirational products
00:42:11 The soundtrack to Jack’s life