Missing links

摘要

Admission: I feared that the huge roster of hi-fi and electronic industry bigwigs billed to speak at the recent Audio Collaborative conference (now held annually by audio market researchers Futuresource Consulting) would be overkill. No-one would have time to say anything of any significance. Fortunately my fears were largely unfounded. You won't perhaps have heard of Knowles Electronics, but it makes many of the miniaturised microphone and balanced armature multi-speaker drivers you find inside portable audio devices. Then there's Qualcomm, which doesn't just make phone-chippery but designs processor and codec ICs.