James Mason — Product Design Engineer
Product Design Engineer · In the audio industry since 2017
Product development · CAD · Engineering · Technical drawings · Manufacture · Custom audio systems
Setting out the desk…
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Projects
Project indexSound systems · 09
Syntax Sound SystemA modular PA system for small-to-mid-scale live music.Personal · 2024–2025 · being built
Type. HF rangeA range of four hi-fi loudspeakers with solid-surface cabinets.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · 2021–2023 · released
Cinema and Movement rangesTwo ranges of cinema loudspeakers, one of them made for direct-view LED screens.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · released
Clarity A and Clarity MA home DJ audio system and a modular PA, for Mastersounds.Professional · Mastersounds · through TPI Aerospace Limited · 2024–2025
EminenceWilson Benesch's flagship loudspeaker.Professional · Wilson Benesch · 2017–2018 · released November 2018
Precision SeriesWilson Benesch's entry-level loudspeaker range.Professional · Wilson Benesch · 2017–2018 · released November 2018
Type. MFRA horn-loaded loudspeaker with a tall slatted enclosure.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · re-engineered for in-house manufacture
Type. TOTEM 2TPI's flagship modular ground-stack system.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · in-house manufacture · released
PictureA compact wall-mounted loudspeaker, shown as a concept.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · 2024 · concept
Furniture & hardware · 04
homeWHERE furnitureA concept furniture range; the lounge chair and stool were prototyped.Freelance · 2019–2025
Type. 29 mixerA fully analogue mixer built from removable channel modules.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · 2023–2025 · publicly shown
GMT One turntableEarly development of a turntable system, released after I left Wilson Benesch.Professional · Wilson Benesch · 2017–2018 · early development
Factory staircaseA staircase for TPI's factory.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · installed
Instruments & software · 04
LooopA music-production concept for beginners.University · Sheffield Hallam University · 2017 · final-year project
Seed part generatorsThree desktop instruments that each generate a usable musical part.Personal · 2026 · working prototypes
Remote ObjectA musical keyring you handle in the browser.Personal · 2026 · browser prototype
Record roomA two-deck listening room in the browser.Personal · 2026 · browser prototype
Automation & systems · 03
Crate packing toolA 3D packing tool that plans TPI's shipping crates.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · self-directed · in use
Technics 1210 instructionsInstruction drawings for customers fitting a Mastersounds tonearm to a Technics 1210.Freelance · Mastersounds · 2025
Live BOM systemA bill of materials in Google Sheets that works out every part a batch of Type. 29 mixers needs.Professional · TPI Aerospace Limited · Google Sheets
