The death was announced on the Web site of the Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, the companys United States subsidiary, which has headquarters in Old Lyme, Conn.
Founded in 1945 in Wedemark with a staff of seven, Sennheiser now employs more than 2,100 people around the world. The company, which is wholly owned by the Sennheiser family, has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and Albuquerque.
Sennheiser professional equipment has long been ubiquitous in the fields of communications and entertainment, used by radio, television and recording engineers worldwide. Its personal audio accessories, including wireless and noise-canceling headphones, are routinely well reviewed in consumer-electronics publications.
Today, Sennheiser microphones are used by recording artists including Pink, Beyonce and the Jonas Brothers.
Among the innovations with which the company is credited is the invention, in the 1950s, of the shotgun mike, a slender, highly sensitive directional microphone now widely used in film and television production.
