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Movies Too Loud? Still?

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017Wayne Staab 1 Comment A-weighting / Analog hearing aids / C-weighting / CALMS / CCIR / Cinema / dBA SPL / Digital Signal Processing / Digital sound / Dolby / Dynamic Range (DR) / Feature film / Filmmakers / Frequency spectrum / Headroom / Hearing / Hearing damage / Hearing loss / Hearing protection / High sound levels / Interaural loudness difference / Leq(m) / Loud sounds / Loudness annoyance level / Loudness level / Loudspeaker / Movie / Movie trailer / Movies / Movies too loud / MPAA / NATO / Noise levels / OSHA 1983 / Phonautograph / SAWA / SLM apps / Sound mixers / Sound Pressure Level (SPL) / Sound quality / Soundtracks / TASA / Theaters / Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Movies too loud? Do the high loudness levels of many movies help to tell the story, or are the high loudness levels provided to cover a weak story? – Snarky question by this article’s author High Volume Story to Tell, or Weak Story to Hide?* Movie viewing has been enjoyed for decades. During this…

Binaural Loudness Summation

March 18, 2015May 17, 2018Wayne Staab Leave a comment Acoustic feedback / Binaural hearing / Binaural summation / Hearing aids / Tone hearing thresholds

The phenomenon of binaural summation is considered one of the practical advantages of hearing with two ears. Binaural loudness summation (binaural additivity) has a long history of experimentation. This includes binaural loudness, comparisons between monaural and binaural thresholds, and comparisons of suprathreshold monaural and binaural loudness functions. As early as 1929, von Békésy1 and…