HEAD acoustics offers acoustics and vibration consulting services with an emphasis in the area of Sound Quality Engineering. Sound Quality is the effect a product's sound has on a consumer's overall perception of the product's quality and thus can have a significant impact on the consumer's purchase decision. Sound Quality Engineering ensures that your product's sound is meeting the quality requirement. Good Sound Quality Engineering can help you increase sales and reduce costs.

Sound Quality Engineering covers setting product design objectives, creating virtual product sounds, determining objective quality measures, and troubleshooting and correcting quality problems. Sound Quality Engineering is a blend of several disciplines: acoustics, psychoacoustics, signal processing, and vibration.

Benefits of using HEAD acoustics Consulting Services

• We can respond immediately to your toughest Sound Quality challenges.
• With unsurpassed expertise, and the most powerful analysis tools available, we are uniquely positioned to offer you Sound Quality evaluation and troubleshooting as well as engineered Sound Quality solutions for emerging technologies such as squeak and rattle testing, vehicle simulation, and end-of-line specification development.
• We also offer a proven Sensory/Sound Quality process utilizing jury tests and innovative metrics to transform customer wants into product specifications. If you are unsure how a Sound Quality program will benefit your department, a "proof of concept" project can demonstrate the benefits at a minimum expense.

Sound Quality Problem Solving

Improve the Sound and Vibration characteristics of your products. We perform goal-oriented analyses and recommend steps to be taken for product improvement and problem abatement. We provide reports with the right level of technical detail that discuss results and recommendations. As a courtesy, we can offer the complete project including sound files on compact disc.

Binaural Transfer Path Analysis (BTPA) and Synthesis (BTPS)

Use BTPA and BTPS techniques to audition the sound of a product design changes before new prototypes are constructed. Use this process early in the prototype testing phase to ensure satisfied customers and to lower overall design costs.

NVH Simulation Technology

Simulate future products or design changes. We offer complete sound and vibration simulation hardware, software, and integration services for new or existing vehicle simulators.

On-site Sound Quality Analysis Tools Optimization and Training

Optimize your Sound Quality data collection process by allowing us to train you how to best use the equipment you already have. We can also develop and document test procedures as part of the technology transfer process.

Squeak and Rattle

Detect and troubleshoot squeak and rattle problems with our specialized measurement solutions including setup, measurement customization, detection algorithm fine-tuning, and metric development.

Metric Development and Validation

Have meaningful Sound Quality metrics developed for your product. Use these metrics to gage improvements in your product or to ensure no degradation of quality during weight or cost saving efforts.

Sound Design

Develop product sounds to please the discerning ear of the customer. We can tell you why your products sound the way they do and how to engineer them to improve customer satisfaction.

Demonstration Sounds for Marketing

Effectively communicate the Sound Quality Engineering benefits of your products to your customers using our sound export tools. These sound files can be conveniently provided on compact disc for presentation, benchmarking or comparison.

Sound Quality profiling with Product Teams

Learn how to determine the appropriate sound attributes to measure in your product and establish standard terminology to facilitate effective communication of Sound Quality issues within your product group.

Jury Testing

Use Jury tests to establish customer preferences of your product. We can assist you in developing and conducting successful Jury Tests. We will determine the optimum test strategies and analysis methods to meet your objectives for the test.

Software Application Development

If you have a special measurement requirement, we can provide custom measurement solutions based on the HEAD acoustics ArtemiS software platform.

For more information on HEAD acoustics consulting services, please contact us at: consult@headacoustics.com.