Dave Moulton

This column will be devoted to the basics of surround sound for video, as part of my series for non-audio folks.

Our Story To Date. Alert readers may recall my recent concern with the variance in audio levels as experienced by us home viewers.

This is for those among us who don't know a lot about audio and are not quite sure we should ask.

There can be hundreds of overtones present in a particular note or sound.

What a year! It's been 12 months now since the terrorist attacks on our country. What's happened? Where are we?

Alert readers will recall that I've been hinting about some new loudspeakers that I've been involved with, for quite some time now. Well, they're out and they are definitely worth talking about!

I recently attended the Audio Engineering Society's Technical Conference on Multichannel Audio, held in late June in Banff, Canada.

An exciting array of new microphones and related technology will be introduced at NAB this year.

Ahh, the mysteries of the wooden box, aka the loudspeaker. There are a couple of ways to consider loudspeakers.

As I noted last month, audio authority John Woram has said, "Audio is a hallucination where the sufferer believes that he or she hears music coming from a small wooden box."

Two months ago we ranted about bad audio, goaded on by reader Bro Duke, who wants the FCC to DO SOMETHING about it! Well, we got a fair amount of mail, with some interesting horror stories.