Lippert Components Inc. entered into a license agreement to acquire exclusive rights from audio technology company Resonado, Inc. to the Resonado Performance Audio brand for the RV, marine, powersports, specialty trailer, rail, and commercial bus industries.
The license includes existing product designs, featuring Resonado’s proprietary technologies, the right to continue to design, manufacture, and distribute certain audio products bearing the Resonado brand, and support from key Resonado team members.
Resonado is a venture-backed company with its headquarters in Chicago. The company invented Res-Core, a new, proprietary speaker motor that enables a new category of high-performance speaker drivers in a sleeker form factor. The company launched the Resonado brand in the RV industry with Airstream, Inc. and in the marine industry through a partnership with the Lippert Marine Group.
Since then, the company partnered with American audio brand Klipsch to launch in-home audio and is actively working on multiple Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Forces to develop innovative, tactical communication technologies.
As the company hones in on design engineering projects in its Chicago lab, Resonado has looked to focus its resources there and away from manufacturing.
“We have watched Resonado evolve since they got their start at the University of Notre Dame and have seen firsthand the potential their technology has in our industries,” said Jason Lippert, President and CEO of Lippert. “After actively collaborating on projects for a couple of years now and seeing how innovation in the audio industry has exploded, we have decided that we are in a position to take Resonado all the way as a premium audio brand under the Lippert umbrella.”
Lippert will take over design, manufacturing and distribution for the Resonado brand. Lippert and Resonado will continue to collaborate on technology development.
“Resonado has developed technologies that are bringing about true innovation to the speaker in marine audio for the first time since the beginning of the industry, and we are just getting started,” said Chuck Lukezic, President of Resonado Labs.
