The Automotive Audio Tech Collaborative

Fostering innovation and open collaboration through our member alliance and shared makerspace.

 

With the increasing complexity of systems and rising demand for advanced features, acoustic product makers and managers need a resource for collaborative innovation and problem-solving…

Today, the growing Audio Foundry membership is coming together to build, experiment, hack, learn, and manifest ideas for the decade to come in automotive audio.

The Alliance

Collaboration

Like-minded innovators, subject-matter experts, and corporate leaders, fostering trust, knowledge sharing, and networking to accelerate automotive audio technology.

The Makerspace

Creation

State-of-the-art, purpose-built, fully equipped makerspaces featuring The Rig, the automotive audio sandbox for design and system layout, access to the industry-leading software frameworks, and the Audio Foundry team of highly skilled engineers and acoustic experts.

The Members

Industry Pioneers

Makers, inventors, innovators, designers, engineers, thinkers, visionaries.

Visit the Audio Foundry

CES 2025

West Hall January 7 – 10

Resources

Labs, Bays, Tools

  • Open work space with flexible desks, huddle areas, and meeting rooms
  • 3D printer lab (Modix Big Meter, Prusa XL, 2x Ender 5s, Stratasys Connex)
  • Woodshop (including CNC router, table saw, band saw, hand tools)
  • Metal shop (including lathe, mill, band saw)
  • Workshop and electrical lab for assembling
  • Two secure, separate vehicle bays for testing and vehicle work
  • The Rig development sandbox​
  • Loudspeaker warehouse

The Rig

Sandbox 

An SUV-sized development sandbox for acoustic design and system layout.  The Rig features modular panels and extensive wiring network for highly adaptable speaker locations and configurations. The Rig runs the leading software frameworks with robust onboard processing and familiar UX, UI center console unit to carry out tuning or playback functionalities.

Philosophy

Open Collaboration Mindset

Enabling creativity, knowledge sharing, and purpose-driven innovation to shape tomorrow’s automotive audio experiences.

Benefits

  • Experiment in fully equipped labs​
  • Access to expert-level consulting or collaboration ​
  • Promotion through the Alliance marketing channels ​
  • Hosted industry workshops and hackathons ​
  • Co-promotion and co-exhibiting opportunities​

Outcomes

  • Disrupt the model of Tier 1 control ​
  • New, innovative, and differentiated solutions through collaboration ​
  • Reduce time-to-develop, time-to-market ​
  • Bridge value-chain gaps
  • Network for opportunities in production ​