Ronald M. Aarts, (born 1956), is a Dutch electrical engineer and physicist, inventor and professor in the field of electroacoustics and in biomedical signal processing technology.
Ronald M. Aarts received a BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1977 and a PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology in 1995.
In 1984 he joined the Acoustics Group at Philips working on developing CAD tools and signal processing for loudspeaker systems.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees ("Kuratorium") of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT at Ilmenau from January 2005 to February 2013.
In 2019, he retired from Philips and now focuses mainly on his academic and consultancy work, the latter encompassing both technical and intellectual property (IP) advice.
Aarts and his collaborators at Philips have been involved in the development, improvement, and hardware implementation of bass enhancement/restoration systems exploiting the natural psycho-acoustic phenomenon known as the "missing fundamental".
For example, one can increase the sweet spot area during stereophonic listening by making use of interaural time differences, this system was called position-independent stereo.
[21] A small loudspeaker in a special housing can generate synthetic jets that offer advantages over a fan, such as higher efficiency, greater design freedom, and less noise and wear.