Ishikawa, Japan-- The ability to locate sounds in the surrounding environment is a remarkable feature of the human ear. Typically, people with good hearing use both ears to detect and interpret ...

Have you ever been on a call, and the sound quality is so bad that it’s nearly impossible to understand what the person on the other end is saying? Ever had the situation at work where your co-workers ...

Faculty from various areas of the humanities discussed the interplay of sound with technology, cultural identity and music in a talk on sound studies Monday. Prof. Trevor Pinch, science and technology ...

When our friends at DTS offered to fly me to San Francisco to cover a seminar they were putting together, I was intrigued. From it's somewhat generic sounding title I was at a loss to figure out how ...

Last fall, students nominated Physics Professor Ed Kinney for an ASSETT Award of Excellence for Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching in Physics 1240 Sound and Music. Students wrote that the ...

Light doesn't travel very far underwater so the navy uses sound to transmit messages. The speed of underwater sound depends on a combination of temperature, salinity and pressure. Understanding sound ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic making work-from-home a necessary condition—along with an increased reliance on phone and video conferencing amid the chaos of a bustling household—the right audio gear is ...