Scantek Celebrates 30 Years in Business

Scantek, a wholly owned subsidiary of Norsonic AS, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2015. Combining sound and vibration instrumentation sales, service, rental and calibration, Scantek is also recognized by its accredited Scantek Calibration Laboratory for microphones, sound level meters and acoustical measurement instrumentation.

MSC Software Corporation announced that it is launching a series of Acoustic Engineering Seminars throughout the United States in 2015 in order to help engineers achieve the difficult balance between government restrictions, consumer preferences, and engineering trends.

The kind of acoustic simulation tools that were once the exclusive province of automotive and aerospace engineers are now available to loudspeaker designers. A speaker designer working in a home studio can design a new enclosure or ported box using the same simulation technology automotive engineers use to design quiet auto interiors or, more precisely, almost the same simulation technology.

An interview with Bob Katz, Founder of Revolution Acoustics. "Curious would best describe me. Curious has acted as a passport to exploring a great many things in my professional career as well as all I do after I punch out at the end of the day. Curiosity drives exploration and exploration drives innovation and invention. The platform that I have been using for decades has been industrial design product development."

Ardán Audio is an Irish company that focuses on the design and sale of Audio Elevation Enhancement products to the professional, studio, home recording, home cinema, and other related markets. Audio Elevation? Yes, Ardán designs and manufactures the most innovative …

Researchers Jeong-Yun Sun and Christoph Keplinger at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new type of loudspeaker transducer, which works on a different principle than the conventional moving coil design. It is made of …