Engineering and Development

Product Acoustical Engineering Research and Development

The need for product acoustical research and development is becoming a very high priority for IT, CE and consumer products. Many companies, within these industries, do not own the necessary equipment or have the in-house expertise for developing their products acoustically due to the very large cost involved of building an in-house laboratory and maintaining experienced dedicated acoustical engineers at a fully burdened labor rate in excess of $150K US per year per person. Because of the rarity and expense of an experienced acoustical engineer, the person in charge of such development is usually a mechanical or thermal engineer with little to no expertise developing products acoustically. The final result, from these engineer's long hours of hard work, may be able to meet a specification for single number sound power or sound pressure levels yet still have significant noise complaints for that product.

Our expertise allows you to work “outside the box” by providing you the flexibility to perform the acoustical development needed for your products in a highly cost effective manner. Our ability to develop fixtures and testing techniques to acquire and analyze the acoustical emissions or sound quality of your products is unsurpassed.

Click on the pictures below to see a small sample of R&D work taking place in our lab.