BERLIN — Latvian startup Real Sound Lab has taken their proprietary audio-correction technology to the US market and hopes to make a splash in the consumer segment.
"The concept allows automated correction of audio speakers in a way that the sound is as close as possible to the original source of the sound," said Viesturs Sosars, CEO. "Previous attempts to do this [by others] have failed."
Whether RSL will make a splash in the US is too early to judge. But recently the company partnered with fabless firm Quickfilter Technologies, Inc, Allen, TX, which implemented RSL's correction software, known as CONEQ, onto a digital filter IC.
RSL has also sold its correction system to Mi Casa Studios in Hollywood for use in its sound mixing and editing equipment.
From their office in Fountain Valley, CA, RSL management hopes to address a weak spot in consumer audio -- sound performance. Consumer audio gear such as flat panel TVs and radios often have reduced audio quality due to cost-down pressure and physical design. Audio engineers try to compensate for such problems but have been limited by cost constraints.
RSL's technology was developed over the last 20 years by the CTO, Raimonds Skuruls, a former studio sound engineer as well as an electrical engineer. With some European Union funding, the concept was turned into a prototype and in 2004, Skuruls and Sosars founded the company in the capital Riga.
