About SE
Precision Audio Monitoring & Electronics, Architectural Acoustic Design
Founded in Bern, Switzerland, STRAUSS ELEKTROAKUSTIK designs and builds precision monitoring systems, analog electronics, and purpose-built acoustic environments for professional and critical listening.
For decades, founder Jürgen Strauss has combined physics, measurement, and psychoacoustic research to develop monitoring systems and acoustic environments trusted by engineers, studios, and research institutions worldwide. From its headquarters at the SE MUSICLAB in Bern, together with STRAUSS ELEKTROAKUSTIK USA in Los Angeles, Strauss supports clients through an international network of showrooms, authorized dealers, and ambassadors.
THE STUDIO — SE MUSICLAB in Bern, Switzerland
Reference Installations & Institutions
Sony Music Studios Tokyo
Strauss monitoring systems installed across all 12 mastering suites
SE MUSICLAB (Bern)
Strauss headquarters and integrated research, recording & production facility.
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics | ArtLab & Control Room (Frankfurt)
Strauss reference monitoring and acoustic design by Jürgen Strauss for scientific listening research, spatial perception, and production.
Immersive Design Lab | ETH Zürich (Swiss-Federal Institute of Technology)
Strauss monitoring systems used for spatial auralization and wave-field research
Twelve Suites — One Standard
Sony Music Studios Tokyo utilizes Strauss monitoring across all 12 of their flagship mastering suites. It is an environment where physical stability, time coherence, and long-term consistency are essential.
“We have never heard such accurate mastering monitors ever before.” — Sony Music Studios Tokyo, 2000
Jürgen Strauss
Founder · Designer · Acoustician
Jürgen Strauss founded STRAUSS ELEKTROAKUSTIK GmbH in 2000 and designs high-quality audio monitors, analog electronics, and purpose-built acoustic environments for professional and critical listening applications.
At Sony Music Studios Tokyo, his SE-MF-2.0 Mastering Studio Monitors were selected for use across all mastering suites. Today, SE monitoring systems are used worldwide in high-level music production, mastering, research, and critical listening environments.
Jürgen Strauss designed the ARTLAB at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPI EAE) in Frankfurt, consisting of a concert space with variable room acoustics and a sound studio for psychoacoustic research. For the IMMERSIVE LAB at ETH Zürich, he designed a 3D audio sound system for architectural acoustic auralization.
To further advance the quality of 3D audio reproduction, Jürgen Strauss founded and designed the SE MUSICLAB as a facility for research, development, and teaching.
Following his longstanding interest in the history of art, science, and technology, he continues to work on research projects concerning Vitruvius and room acoustic topics in De Architectura, Joseph Haydn’s symphonies and room acoustics, as well as historical recording techniques associated with Glenn Gould.
Jürgen Strauss is also a lecturer at ETH Zürich for historic and systematic aspects of architectural acoustics and has participated in architectural acoustic research projects together with Gramazio & Kohler / ETH Zürich.
Design Approach
To meet the highest demands of professional and critical listeners, SE Monitors combine proven acoustic principles with innovative technologies. Oriented toward the physical ideal of the point source, all SE Monitors are built as two-way systems for full-range transmission.
This design approach is expressed through LIT woofer technology, new compression drivers, optimized passive filters, simulation, measurement, experimentation, and extensive listening tests.
Technical parameters and sound-aesthetic principles form the foundation of every SE design:
Tone Color
Wide bandwidth, high linearity, low linear distortion, and homogeneous dispersion
Resolution
Low non-linear distortion and micro/macro dynamics
Spatiality
Time alignment and reduced early reflections
Physical Design
Custom LIT Woofers, compression drivers, passive filters, measurement and listening tests
Our Story
STRAUSS ELEKTROAKUSTIK is founded by Jürgen Strauss in Bern, Switzerland
Establishing a design approach grounded in physics, perception, and acoustic accuracy.
International Recognition
Strauss monitoring systems gain recognition in demanding professional environments, including Sony Music Studios Tokyo.
Studio & Institutional Research Applications
Strauss expands its presence across studio and research applications through projects such as the Max Planck ArtLab and the continued development of reference monitoring systems.
Continued Product Development and The SE MUSICLAB
New LIT driver development, the evolution of systems such as the SE MF-2.1 and SE MF-4, and the establishment of SE MUSICLAB mark a major new chapter.
Ongoing Product Development, Research, and Acoustic Design Projects
Ongoing research, future product development continue to shape the Strauss reference standard.
SE Monitors For Science
STRAUSS ELEKTROAKUSTIK serves scientific and research institutions where exceptional accuracy in loudspeaker behavior and auditory perception is required. From the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics to the Immersive Design Lab at ETH Zürich, Strauss systems are used for spatial auralization and wave-field research. That same discipline informs every Strauss monitoring system.
“The high linearity of reproduction provided by the SE MASTERING STUDIO MONITORS SE-MF-2.1, together with the neutral room acoustics of the ARTLAB, forms an essential foundation for our scientific work."
— Horst Stenschke | Head of ARTLAB, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics