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 ...

Horse owners are campaigning for a change in the law to reduce the loudness of fireworks. They also want rules to ensure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Audio quality can make or break a piece of content. Editors always need to remember that even if the video has mind-blowing visuals, poor audio quality will detract from the audience’s viewing ...

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 ...

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 ...