Klippel Announces New Management Structure

In May 2020, Klippel GmbH appointed Benjamin Barth as general manager, allowing its founder Wolfgang Klippel to focus more on research and education. Three years later, the company has transitioned successfully to a new management structure to ensure a seamless succession plan, now with Benjamin Barth fully at the helm. One of the global leading companies in the field of measurement technology for loudspeakers and audio systems, Klippel, in the past years, Klippel successfully expanded its portfolio of products and services.

This article discusses end-of-line testing, a crucial step in production, which requires very specific procedures and measurements. Specifically, the authors focus on testing irregular acoustic defects (also known as Rub & Buzz) to reduce the test time and optimal solutions to speed automatic testing in a production environment. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2020.

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