LET’S TALK ABOUT LOUDNESS! Yelling is loud! That fashionable guy on the train blasting music into his ears? His headphones are loud! Loudness sounds good and feels good, and unfortunately, it’s ...

In the United States, we have seen the publication and amendment of ATSC A/85, the television loudness recommended practice, and the passage into law of the CALM Act, directing the FCC to enact ...

Although both broadcast network representatives like Jim Starzynski, of NBC Universal, and members of the audio processing equipment vendor community, like Tim Carroll, president of Linear Acoustic, ...

For the last few years, the Audio Engineering Society has done much work in the areas of loudness and dialogue intelligibility. Many feel these topics are relevant mostly to the video industry, but ...

The author is founder and creative director of Nugen Audio. LEEDS, England — For several years now, loudness normalization (the matching of the average loudness of program material and commercials to ...