Resonado Labs, an American technology licensing company, has brought on Benny Danovi as a vice president of engineering and principal transducer engineer as it grows its U.S. engineering team.
In his new role, Danovi will spearhead the expansion of the company’s proprietary Flat Core Speaker technology transducer architecture with a focus on next generation driver designs for automotive and multimedia applications.
A highly experienced transducer engineer with nearly four decades in the industry, Danovi has been responsible for numerous loudspeaker innovations. Before focusing in on transducer design, Danovi spent 16 years building speaker systems as the owner of his company, Sound Art. Even at the peak of small independent outfits selling hi-fi systems like Danovi’s in the 1980s and 1990s, Danovi was a pioneer in loudspeaker system design utilizing single and multi-chambered ported, bandpass, and transmission line low frequency enclosures, satellite subwoofer systems, and other advancements such as inter-driver time alignment.
Later, at Pioneer and Harman, Benny Danovi played an instrumental role in the evolution of high-performance automotive transducers where he designed over 100 drivers under brands such as Bowers & Wilkins, Harman Kardon, JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, many with unique motor and suspension topologies. At Sonos, among other projects, Danovi was responsible for the woofer in the Gen 2 Play 1. Danovi then continued raising the bar higher and higher for cutting-edge drivers at his most recent role at Alpine where he led OEM automotive transducer design and worked on collaborations with brands such as McIntosh and Sonus faber.
“The global shift towards spending more time at home further accelerated increased consumer desire for space-efficient audio systems, such as reduced height and depth in soundbars, which heightened demand for FCS technology transducers from brands and their respective OEMs. This resulted in company growth at a rate much greater than expected,” says Brian Youngil Cho, co-founder and CEO of Resonado Labs.
“Benny is one of the best in the game when it comes to advanced transducer design, and we cannot wait to further our mission of introducing the next generation of transducer architecture that enables slim and sleek product design without having to compromise on acoustic performance.”
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