Directional flow: an illustration of the resonant cavity with the three ports attached. The image shows the distribution of the acoustic pressure field inside the unbiased ring. Sound flows only in ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- The ability to locate sounds in the surrounding environment is a remarkable feature of the human ear. Typically, people with good hearing use both ears to detect and interpret ...

A team of researchers at the University of Texas At Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering has effectively disproved the adage that, “if you can hear you can be heard” by creating the world's first ...

Researchers have developed three designs for compact speaker systems that control the direction of sound more efficiently than previous models. For each speaker, the scientists were able to manipulate ...

Psychoacoustics is the field pertaining to perception of sound by human beings. Incorporated within it are the physical interactions that occur between sound fields and the human head, outer ears, and ...

A stereo sound system will give you a good feel for where instruments have been placed in the soundscape created by the production team. And there are headphones that can custom tune the listening ...

WASHINGTON, August 31, 2021 -- As electronic devices decrease in size, their component parts, like speakers, need to shrink as well. In JASA Express Letters, published by the Acoustical Society of ...