Lately I've been watching more and more details upstairs on my plasma screen (as opposed to my front projector downstairs), but my room is near my baby's room. The problem is that the quiet scenes are ...

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...

Think your AV receiver is underpowered? Before you spend money on a bigger amplifier for your home theater system, make sure you're not giving away valuable amplifier power, headroom, and dynamic ...

There are a lot more amplifiers equipped with built-in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) than there were just a couple of years ago. However, while DSP gives users the power to configure and optimize ...

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...

To understand audio compression, it is important to understand the dynamic range of human hearing. The dynamic range of hearing is the difference between the quietest sounds human can hear (the ...