One of the first noises I was terrified of as a child was the sound of water going down the bathtub drain. I remember covering my ears and running out of the room as soon as the plug was pulled to ...

But one technical area is complained about more than any other: the sound. Many complaints are about audibility, including background music being too loud, with loudness (explained below ...

While there are sound barriers, the rumbling sound of a ... even if the exposure is to sounds that might not seem "too loud". Studies have also shown that “noise annoyance” – typically ...

The next time he went into the room, he brought a sound pressure meter. “Eighty-five decibels is what this thing was pumping out,” he says. That’s a level that can be reached by a loud hair ...

Noise-induced hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. It’s not as much a matter of how loud a sound seems, but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever ...

At a high level, the solution is fairly straightforward; when there is loud music playing in a movie, turn the volume down. The challenge is how to actually achieve that. The first step was ...

That's better. Where was I? Ah yes. What makes the difference between a quiet sound and a loud sound? Well, it's all to do with the strength of the vibration. A weak vibration makes a gentle sound ...

Johnston County resident Rich Girard shared security camera footage with WRAL News in which you can hear the loud boom ringing out. Walter Vaughn also heard the sound from his home in Wayne County.