Listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “The Live Anthology” CDs at home with my Zu Druid V speakers, I kept turning up the volume. How loud was it? Armed with my trusty Radio Shack sound ...

The 'Loudness Wars' aren't about loud music, they're more about how music is mixed or mastered to eliminate the soft-to-loud variations in live music. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

Instructors work out together at The Wall. As I drove home from a recent weeknight Spin class, I realized that the NPR show I was listening to seemed strangely muffled. In fact, everything sounded ...

Lately I’ve been worried about my ears. As a legacy of stupidly going to many very loud concerts with no hearing protection whatsoever in my youth, I’ve suffered from tinnitus for about as long as I ...

So I'm at work today and I notice I have a voice mail. I check my message and it's somebody from the rental office at my apartment complex asking me to call them back. I do so and it ends up that my ...

I was sitting here, inside, reading Ars with two televisions on AND listening to music, and I hear bass outside. Great. There's some idiot driving around, blasting music at an insta-deaf volume coming ...