When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last month, I began a discussion of the sensation of loudness inspired by James Johnston (JJ) of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ATSC has published a new Recommended Practice (RP) that addresses the large variation in ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOUDNESS! Yelling is loud! That fashionable guy on the train blasting music into his ears? His headphones are loud! Loudness sounds good and feels good, and unfortunately, it’s ...

California legislators have enacted a new law mandating that streaming platforms align the audio levels of advertisements ...

Audio/video experience on computers has come a long way. The tech involved has advanced greatly so as to bring us as close to living these experiences as possible. But there are a few things that ...

As we come to the end of the decade, we turn to one of the more dramatic changes we've heard in music over those 10 years: It seems to have gotten louder. We're talking about compression here, the ...

Loudness normalization is now available for the Galaxy S24 series in the recent One UI 7 beta. The feature prevents sound from suddenly becoming too loud or too quiet while playing media. It was ...

The author is founder and creative director of Nugen Audio. LEEDS, England — For several years now, loudness normalization (the matching of the average loudness of program material and commercials to ...

Listening to music that has been compressed can leave your ears feeling fatigued CDs have been getting louder since the mid-80s, as record labels fight to get their artists heard. Trevor Cox, ...

The 'loudness' of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying something -- influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds. The "loudness" of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying ...