PUTNAM, CT —Rational Acoustics LLC recently completed the purchase of the Smaart brand product line from Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW). The purchase, in the works for nine months, leaves Rational Acoustics as the sole owner of the Smaart brand, with title to all names, trademarks, code bases and assets for the complete suite of past, current and future versions of Smaart software. “This is a huge milestone for Rational Acoustics,” said Karen Anderson, Rational Acoustics’ COO. “In just over 18 months we have grown from a tiny start-up company to being the owners of the most powerful and most popular acoustic test and measurement software brand in the industry. It’s the end of one phase of our journey and just the beginning of the next. We are deeply committed to the future of Smaart and are excited to show Smaart users worldwide what we have planned.”
“It’s great to welcome Smaart back home,” said Jamie Anderson, Rational Acoustics’ CEO. “Four of the five people at Rational Acoustics were there in 1999 when Smaart became an EAW product, so it’s only fitting that we’re all here 10 years later, the day it becomes a Rational one.”
Rational Acoustics and Loud Technologies are working together to transition all online licensing, registration and sales processes for Smaart from EAW to Rational Acoustics as well as transitioning sales and distribution networks worldwide.
Rational is currently in development of the next generation of Smaart, dubbed Smaart v.7, which is scheduled for a December launch.
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