The company was founded in 2002 by Tim Carroll, who had previously worked as Product Manager for the Professional Audio Division[2] of Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco.
Christina Carroll is the Vice President and Executive Director of Linear Acoustic and is responsible for managing day-to-day company operations.
The company’s products can be broadly broken down into three categories: Loudness controllers designed to help television broadcasters maintain consistent audio levels; monitors and meters that measure digital audio levels, including loudness; and stand-alone encoding and transcoding products for handling the various data compression technologies commonly found in digital television plants.
While consumer complaints about overly loud television commercials are almost as old as the medium itself,[4] the CALM Act began as legislation was first sponsored by Representative Anna Eshoo, a Democratic congresswoman in California, in 2008.
[9] In 2011, Linear Acoustic received a Technical Emmy for The Pioneering Development of an Audio/Metadata Processor for Conforming Audio to the ATSC Standard.