Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

For the last 10 years, sound has been mixed and mastered at ever increasing loudness levels, crushing the natural vibrancy of music. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as ...

The dynamic range of an audio signal is the difference between the quietest discernible part of the signal and the loudest undistorted part of the signal. It is normally expressed in decibels (dB).

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 ...

With each passing year since the advent of CDs and mp3s, artists have turned up the volume. Digital recording now allows sound to be louder overall without introducing audible background static and ...

EVER noticed how much louder and murkier music sounds these days? This is not entirely a matter of being out of tune with the times. Nor is it likely to be because today's iPod generation, having ...

Dynamic range compression is a technique used to raise the level of soft sounds and lower the level of louder sounds, effectively reducing the loudness "swing" of an audio signal. Classically, this ...