Movies Too Loud? Still?
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…
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Binaural Loudness Summation
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…
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