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Helping the growing population with hearing loss. Momentum is accelerating toward a new world of assistive listening for Americans with …
Sound & Communications is not an audio-only magazine, given our robust coverage of video, lighting and control systems. However, every aspect of audio technology that applies to commercial facilities is covered extensively in our magazine. We explore audio solutions for government facilities, houses of worship, education campuses, retail stores, corporate facilities, entertainment venues, performing arts centers, theme parks and attractions, auditoriums and hospitality venues. Among the audio-centric topics we cover are sound reinforcement, audio conferencing, voice-over-IP, audio-over-IP, soundmasking, assistive listening, audio signal processing, acoustics and amplification. Products covered include wired microphones, wireless systems, loudspeakers, amplifiers, mixing boards, conferencing systems, patchbays, absorptive material, acoustical treatment, wiring and more. Sound & Communications’ monthly columnist, Peter Mapp, PhD, FASA, FAES, whose “Sound Advice” covers a different audio-centered topic every month, has written for the magazine for well over a decade.
Helping the growing population with hearing loss. Momentum is accelerating toward a new world of assistive listening for Americans with …
Are they a help or hindrance? Every year, more and more new standards appear relating to audio systems, and I …
Which test signals to use and when. Today, we have a wide variety of test signals available to us for …
Starting out in the AV world. I am writing this at 36,000 feet, somewhere over the Mediterranean on the way …
For optimal sound, school auditoriums need effective sound design. Not long ago, I sat in my daughter’s high school auditorium, prepared …
Matching acoustics and function. Although most of my work relates to sound systems, I also spend a significant amount of …
How do you know your measurement is correct? As audio engineers, almost every day we have to measure something, be …
A matter of timing. In the previous parts of this discussion about sound quality [December 2009, January and February 2010], …
A matter of timing. Last month, I looked at some of the effects that frequency response and frequency distortion have …
A matter of frequency. In Part 1 last month, I introduced the concept of sound quality and some of the …