Oct 19, 2015, Minneapolis – AES, booth 550 - Today Warkwyn, an acoustic design and measurement firm, recently acquired by US OEM speaker manufacturer MISCO, announced that it has completed the relocation of all operations from Ontario, Canada to Minneapolis and is fully operational and ready to serve it clients. The company also announced that its role as North American sales and training agent for Klippel GmbH has been renewed, and that industry veteran Kent Peterson has been hired as the Warkwyn sales & marketing manager.
Warkwyn has acted as sales and training agent for Klippel since Warkwyn Associates’ founding in 2012 and now officially continues under the new Warkwyn management. Based in Dresden, Germany, Klippel pioneered development of large-signal performance models for loudspeakers. The Klippel suite of measurement hardware and analysis software can provide the highest degree of data and insight for speaker transducers and systems under test.
Warkwyn offers a full menu of services for audio brands and other industries that rely on high performance speakers. Clients can choose to work with Warkwyn in whatever way makes most sense for them. Clients with robust in-house design and engineering may simply want to send existing or in-development transducers or systems to Warkwyn for Klippel analysis and other measurements to validate designs or potentially uncover underlying problems. Warkwyn can also provide full R&D and design services working independently or alongside in-house engineering resources and/or offshore vendors. For clients with great ideas but little in-house engineering, Warkwyn can deliver a turnkey product from a cocktail napkin sketch to an in-stock reality.
In his over 25-year career in the audio manufacturing, sales and acoustical consulting fields Warkwyn’s new sales and marketing manager Kent Peterson has worked with SEH Engineering, Electro-Voice, HDR Engineering, and hearing assistance specialist Williams Sound. Kent attended the University of Minnesota Duluth where he studied music, communications and acoustics. He is an expert EASE programmer and a musician and producer with three Minnesota Music Awards to his credit. Kent may be reached at Warkwyn’s Minneapolis office 612-759-4042 or by email kent.peterson@warkwyn.com.
Kent Peterson and Jason Cochrane will be in the Klippel booth (#550) at the International AES Convention in New York, October 29 – November 1, 2015. To set up a specific appointment please contact kent.peterson@warkwyn.com.
About Warkwyn
Warkwyn is an R&D company that develops superior transducers and loudspeaker systems for the professional and consumer marketplaces. Speaker designer Tim Gladwin founded Warkwyn Associates in Ontario Canada. MISCO, the leading USA-based OEM speaker manufacturer, acquired the company in 2015, renamed it simply “Warkwyn,” and moved operations including their state of the art measurement equipment to their Minneapolis headquarters.
Long time Warkwyn associate, speaker designer and Klippel expert, Jason Cochrane, joined the MISCO team to head Warkwyn engineering. Working alongside Jason are accomplished speaker engineers Rich Field and Gary Church.
For more information on Warkwyn please visit www.warkwyn.com