david spoelhof, associate

Accurate Audio Consultants

PROFILE
David R. Spoelhof is an independent audio, video and acoustical consultant. With more than 25 years of experience, in October of 1996, he was pleased to announce the founding of Accurate Audio Consultants serving Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Canada. Since that time, he has assembled a diverse group of professionals under that name. Their consortia of specialists are ready to work for you to meet and exceed your audio, video and acoustical needs.

AAC is an independent consulting firm. This enables them to provide the most objective design and analysis services direct to the church, architect, construction management company, and the contractor. In the past few years, they have worked with many local professionals and have come to know who is the best at their craft.

David's previous 25 years of experience have enabled him to perform the following tasks:

• Designed more than four hundred church sound reinforcement systems and many large-scale sound, sound masking and paging systems for Steelcase, Hayworth, Herman Miller and Amway in the five years as the Director of Engineering at ASCOM, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.

• Designed, and installed dozens of AM, FM, and Television audio recording and broadcast studios across the United States for ten years as the Senior Systems Engineer at The Audio Broadcast Group, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.

• Designed, and installed twelve remote AM & FM broadcast vehicles while holding the position of Senior Systems Engineer at The Audio Broadcast Group, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.

• Repaired or aligned over a thousand broadcast, production, and recording studio recording transports and electronics as Service Manager at ABG, Inc.

• Supervised, designed, and installed over twenty corporate audiovisual facilities in 4 years as Facilities Supervisor at Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI.

• Founding member and served in the Office of Chairman, Secretary, and Committee man in the West Michigan Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society (WMAES).

COMPANY
Mission Statement:  “Enabling the Word to be clearly Seen and Heard.

What’s in a name?

ACCURATE: ac•cu•rate adj. 1. Conforming exactly to fact; errorless. 2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard. 3. Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement: an accurate scale.

AUDIO: au•di•o adj. 1. Of or relating to humanly audible sound. 2. a. Of or relating to the broadcasting or reception of sound. b. Of or relating to high-fidelity sound reproduction. n. pl.

CONSULTANT: con•sult•ant n. 1. One that gives expert or professional advice. 2. One that consults another.

and

CONSORTIUM: con•sor•ti•um n. pl. con•sor•ti•a. 1. a. An association or a combination, as of businesses, financial institutions, or investors. b. A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions: a library consortium. 2. An association or a society.

ADVOCATE: ad•vo•cat•ing ad•vo•cates 1. To speak, plead, or argue in favor of. See note at support. n. 1. One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender: an advocate of civil rights.

AAC Are Advocates for:

• Houses of Worship

• Schools

• Multipurpose Performance Venues

• Auditoriums

• Theaters

• Architectural Firms

• System Integrator’s and Contractors

We offer professional design services in these disciplines:

• Acoustics Room Acoustics, Sound Isolation, Mechanical System Noise and Vibration, Speech Privacy, & Electronic Sound Systems

• Audio Reinforcement and Recording

• Cabinetry Production, Broadcast and Sound Reinforcement

• Control Systems - Analog, Digital, RF and IR

• Electro-Acoustic Simulation

• EASE 4.1, AURA and CATT Acoustic

• Lighting Classroom and Performance

• Multimedia Slide, Film, Video and Computer Projection

• Measurement Noise, Reverberation, Speech Intelligibility & Delay

• Planning and Needs Analysis

• Facility Design & Evaluation, System Verification, Conflict Resolution & Contractor Partnership Recommendations

• System Tuning (Voicing) and Instrumentation

• Utilizing; TEF, Smaart Pro & Smaart Live 5 FFT Analysis

• Training Operator and User Instruction

• Video Live, Post Production, and Projection (IMAG)

We hold membership with these professional organizations:

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

• Audio Engineering Society (AES)

• Chamber of Commerce, Grand Blanc (GBCC)

• Media Communications Association-International (MCA-I)

• National Systems Contractor Association (NSCA)

• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

• Synergetic Audio Concepts (Syn-Aud-Con)

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