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 ...

John Kean explains how the xHE-AAC codec utilizes metadata to shift dynamic range control from content producers to listeners ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may have encountered instances where, while listening to music or watching videos on your computer, the audio levels sometimes fluctuate between being too high and too low, even when your device’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the natural world, many situations exist in which a percept remains constant in the presence of profound changes in the physical stimulus affecting the sensory receptors. Some of the most ...

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 ...