Redrock Acoustics Relaunches Loudspeaker Testing Services

November 20 2023, 00:15
Redrock Acoustics, the company founded by Patrick Turnmire, announced the launch of a new website that also signals the return of the company to offering loudspeaker testing services. Renowned for offering engineering and design services, Redrock Acoustics is again opening access to services that include Klippel testing and transducer analysis. Visitors to the new website will find information about all services, and the SpeaD transducer development software, as well as other design tools.
 

Headquartered in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, Redrock Acoustics is one of the most prolific and experienced independent speaker engineering companies in the US. Redrock has designed over 2000 loudspeakers in the last 30 years, many of these reviewed as best in category by audio industry reference publications. Redrock has been honored with 20 loudspeaker industry design awards.

Redrock offers complete speaker design and speaker testing services. From performance goals integrated seamlessly with industrial design to the most complete testing services available, Redrock is ready to help designers and manufacturers get their products to market and make sure they perform as expected. Three decades of working with US and Asian suppliers have given Redrock the unparalleled experience to make those products a reality.

Loudspeaker Testing Services
Redrock Acoustics offers complete transducer testing and evaluation in the company's acoustics lab featuring Klippel Distortion Analyzer, calibrated measurement microphones and amplifiers, 80Hz IEC baffle, laser position sensors, thermal probes, Tesla meter, accelerometers, and a host of other acoustic and electronics test equipment.

Redrock has been a beta test site for the Klippel Analyzer for five years and has tested more speakers (of every imaginable type) than any other independent lab in the world - including numerous drivers measured for Voice Coil's Test Bench. Redrock is able to test virtually any type of loudspeaker including woofer, midrange, tweeters, and compression drivers. Woofer testing can be done in free air or in an enclosure. 

Loudspeaker Design Services
In our 30 years of loudspeaker engineering, Redrock Acoustics designed and brought to market thousands of speakers for familiar product names, many of which have won loudspeaker design awards for their engineering and performance. Patrick Turnmire is the developer and the supplier of SpeaD and ReverseSpeaD software for loudspeaker design.

All of the tools required for loudspeaker engineering are available and include Magnet FEA (DC, AC, and Dynamic AC), solid modeling, mechanical FEA (static, non-linear, and modal), Thermal FEA, FineCone transducer FEA, Klippel Tester and proprietary speaker design tools that are exclusive to Redrock.

With over 30 years of transducer design experience, the company also offers evaluation and solutions for the most intricate design problems. Its expertise and experience in speaker design, engineering and testing provides efficient and cost effective results that get a product into production fast and at the best possible price.
 

Origins
Redrock Acoustics started in 1985 to provide loudspeaker technical information to the car audio industry. In 1989 Redrock Acoustics became loudspeaker engineering consultants to Sonavox, one of the highest volume speaker manufacturers in the world. The huge number of new loudspeaker designs (hundreds per year) that Sonavox needed motivated the creation of SpeaD Loudspeaker Design software.

SpeaD was born of a combination of incredibly complex mathematical models and thousands of speaker samples to fine tune those models. During long months and years at the Sonavox factory, Patrick Turnmire wrote and polished the software until it was able to accurately predict Thiele Small parameters and produce a complete speaker design in a few minutes.

Inquiries can be sent to Patrick Turnmire by email, or call 505-699-4103.
www.redrockacoustics.com
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