Designing to meet a performance standard like RP-22 means doing more than picking components that “should be loud enough.” It requires precise calculation of loudspeaker SPL requirements, factoring in real-world conditions, system configuration, and the physics of sound propagation.

In this advanced 90-minute course, learners will gain the tools to do exactly that. You’ll learn how to determine the SPL a loudspeaker needs to produce – based on bandwidth, bass management strategies, and propagation loss – and how to assess whether a given system design will hit the required targets.

We’ll go beyond the basics to incorporate directivity vs. sound power, amplifier voltage capability, and the all-important headroom that separates systems that just meet specs from those that deliver reliably and dynamically under real-world conditions.

Performance targets aren’t suggestions – they’re engineering goals. This course shows you how to hit them, ensuring your system designs are both standards-compliant and ready for reality. By the end of this course, learners will be able to calculate loudspeaker SPL requirements based on system bandwidth, bass management strategies, and propagation loss, incorporating considerations of directivity versus sound power, amplifier voltage capability, and necessary headroom to meet RP-22 performance standards.