Sound Quality Testing

 

When noise levels are low but users still complain

Sound Quality is many times defined as when a product’s sound meets the user’s expectations. In many instances, the product easily meets a sound power or sound pressure requirement yet, the user still complains the sound is bad. There is a direct correlation between the way a product sounds and the user’s perception of the overall quality of that product. By implementing Sound Quality design and testing into your product, you are able to define the sounds that the user describes and place a number to that perception.

Our Sound Quality test methods are proven and have been developed from years of Sound Quality Engineering and testing experience for different products. The methods we use can be implemented for virtually all Sound Quality testing and analysis of products at any phase including but not limited to:

· Product development

· Failure analysis

· Quality control

· Product qualification

· Troubleshooting problem sounds

· Specification development

· Reliability acoustics

 

Sound Quality testing and analysis has multiple levels of complexity and requires many years of developing the skills and expertise to perform the signal processing techniques and psychoacoustical analysis for sound quality engineering.

With today’s DSP technology and automation for ease of use, a young teenager can be taught, in a matter of an hour, how to push the buttons necessary in order to acquire data yet this does not make them an acoustic engineer with sound quality or psychoacoustic expertise.

Don’t be caught believing if a lab has the mechanical tools they can help you. When you need professional sound quality testing and analysis, there is no substitute for the expertise we provide.