The loudest album of 2010 was almost certainly Sleigh Bells' acclaimed Treats, a collection of songs with the volume and distortion of nearly every element pushed into the red. Drums became blasts of ...

Decibels (dB) are a unit for measuring sound. Since sound reproduction is critical for the home theater experience, it's ...

The trend to loud-all-the-time music shows no signs of letting up, but here's a possible way out of the Loudness Wars. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end ...

The human tolerance for sound is, on a galactic level, puny. Volcano eruptions, jackhammer-intensive construction work, My Bloody Valentine concerts—these tinnitus-inducing phenomena are barely ...

What? Loudness again? The topic of loudness, particularly commercial loudness, has been with us as long as has commercial television. In the 1960s, the FCC made a major effort to study loudness, ...

I've played with it and read the reviews about what it's supposed to do. Yet I've yet to find the magic behind the loudness control. I've tried using it at low volumes in the office to get a bit more ...

The California law is patterned after federal law, extending the rules of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation ...