For those looking to gain a deeper understanding of how audio works, whether to make better-informed decisions or simply for the sake of curiosity, it's useful to lay down some ground rules that ...

Megan Gerhart, Au.D. received her doctorate of audiology from the University of Florida. She has experience helping pediatrics to geriatrics both in private practice and medical models of care. She ...

From the Richter scale to sound pressure, many modern units utilize the logarithmic “base 10” system. But to many engineers, the decibel (dB) remains one of the trickiest concepts of test and ...

Decibels are commonly used in electronic systems that include RF, audio, and more recently, signal integrity. While many engineers already think in decibels, if you mostly work in the time domain, you ...

Generator noise is a problem. While portable generators are great for providing emergency power, they can be loud and disruptive to those around you. In some instances, they might even be unusable if ...

A decibel (dB) is a unit used to measure how loud a sound is. The louder the sound, the higher the decibel number. Sounds are made when something vibrates, creating sound waves that travel through the ...