One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a measure of relative intensity or ...

The author is senior technologist at NPR Labs. A new form of audio measurement is poised to invade North American control rooms and studios: loudness-based metering. It is one of the most fundamental ...

The circuit was designed by two monolithic integrated circuits to measure the level of audio signals whose unit of measurement is known as volume unit. Volume Unit – an entity equal to a decibel for ...

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...