MISCO is announcing a new venture into truly immersive, transformative audio.
The audio solutions manufacturer has partnered with ComHear, the creators of a pioneering algorithmic beam steering platform, to make a significant leap for directional and 3D sound delivery. By combining MISCO's expertise in driver and electronics engineering with ComHear's technology, both companies look to create advanced, immersive experiences for OEM customer products.
Meeting the Evolving Needs of our Unique Customers
The MISCO and ComHear partnership emerged from a shared understanding of the needs of manufacturers within demanding industries. Mike Binn, CEO of Apical Point Partners and Senior Vice President of ComHear, previously worked with overseas original design manufacturers (ODMs). Binn highlighted the frustratingly slow pace of prototype development, a lack of dedicated focus on the B2B market, and less-than-ideal technology marketing.
"Our experience had been with overseas ODMs, and they had difficulty turning around prototypes and getting the type of engineering response time we needed," Binn recounted. "They were all focused on electronics and couldn’t effectively sell the product and technology."
MISCO’s work with ComHear offers mutual benefits that extend beyond a simple vendor-supplier relationship. ComHear gains access to MISCO's deep-rooted audio engineering expertise, agility in rapid prototyping, and unwavering commitment to manufacturing quality. As a result, ComHear can expand its technological horizons, offering cutting-edge beam steering and 3D audio capabilities.
For MISCO’s customers, the partnership offers speaker hardware that is seamlessly integrated with spatial audio algorithms and backed by the collective expertise of two industry leaders.
“ComHear’s technology is allowing MISCO to provide an end-user experience that was previously difficult to achieve with only a few speakers,” shared Dan Digre, CEO and President of MISCO. “We are looking forward to bringing this technology to our customers because we know that it will improve their customers’ experience.”
Benefits That Simplify Development
The MISCO and ComHear partnership offers key advantages for product development teams, simplifying the path to advanced audio:
- Simplified implementation: Achieve more sophisticated, 3D audio experiences without the complexity typically associated with implementing such features. "You can have the sound of 32 speakers coming over a soundbar that just has two speakers,” Binn notes. “You'll be hearing multiple channels of audio without added hardware.”
- Form flexibility: The combined solutions will accommodate space constraints that often challenge product development teams, allowing for greater flexibility in design. This adaptability helps manufacturers maintain their design vision while still incorporating quality, directional and 3D audio.
- Comprehensive testing: MISCO’s unique Klippel measurement tools enable microscopic analysis of vibrational behavior under real-world conditions, resulting in better-performing, consistent, timely, and cost-effective products. Klippel analysis helps avoid time-consuming trial-and-error, significantly reducing time-to-market.
Transforming Industries Through Focused Sound
MISCO’s collaboration with ComHear aims to address persistent spatial challenges across many manufacturer applications, including:
- Elevating gaming sound: The technology can create personal audio zones around individual gaming machines, allowing players to become fully engrossed in their own game's sonic landscape without interference from nearby games.
- Focusing attention in drive-thru lanes and kiosks: Drive-thru and ordering kiosk applications can also benefit from beam steering's ability to enhance speech intelligibility in noisy environments. By focusing audio directly at customers, the technology cuts through the background clutter.
Support Throughout The Development Cycle
When you receive a MISCO product with ComHear technology, we offer support from the concept stage all the way through production.
- Design phase: Offers early consultation on audio needs, space planning, and technical specs to set projects on course.
- Prototyping: Provides quick sample delivery and technical assistance during early integration to resolve issues before they affect timelines.
- Testing and validation: Supplies thorough testing data and support throughout the validation process, backed by MISCO's commitment to rigorous quality control.
- Production: Ensures consistent quality and dependable delivery to meet manufacturing schedules, leveraging MISCO's proven expertise as a trusted OEM partner.
MISCO and ComHear are collaborating to deliver solutions that fundamentally change how sound is experienced.
To explore how beam steering technology could address your specific audio challenges and unlock new possibilities for your projects, contact MISCO today for a personalized consultation and demonstration.
