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These headphones will adapt their sound to how you hear
For all the changes in visual appearance, all the extra features and connections, what hasn’t changed much in headphones is how headphones work. That makes Nura, a product launching this week on Kickstarter, all the more interesting. Not only does it introduce a unique design for how the headphones physically deliver sound to your ears, […]
Read moreFeeling Sound, Physically: ‘Touch the Sound’ Documents Deaf Percussionist
What is sound? What does it mean, and why does it matter? It’s never too fundamental, too basic a question to ask ourselves again when we make music. So, I’ll leave this trailer otherwise largely without comment, except to say, it’s well worth watching (or re-watching). Touch the Sound, produced by German director Thomas Riedelsheimer […]
Peter Kirn - December 6, 2011
Music Music tech
Your Hearing, According to MP3: Sounds for Humans, Played for 10^450 Years
The miracle of human hearing goes well beyond audiophile snobbery over “high fidelity,” or the machinations of sometimes-arbitrary, designed-by-committee industry specifications. But, in the context of my rant about perceived myths in audio, what can we hear, really? And how much perceptible sound can you squeeze into an MP3? For his master’s thesis at the […]
Kids Using High-Pitched Ringtones Inaudible to Adults (What About You?)
Peter Kirn - June 12, 2006
Music tech
Hearing Like Humans Do: New Sonic Analysis Methods Clear Through Noise, Promise Better Music Software
Peter Kirn - June 12, 2006
Music tech
Acoustics on the Road: Phase Cancellation and Your Car Muffler
Peter Kirn - August 30, 2005
Music tech
Reimagining Hearing: Hearwear Show in UK
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2005
Music tech
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