Science news articles about 'sound quality'

... may explain the superiority of these violins. This insight offers new possibilities into replicating the tonal qualities of these ancient instruments, as the researchers conclude in PLoS ONE.

... the patient, internal body gurgles, and ambient sounds. The analysis thus produces a signal based on twenty five different sound qualities and variables, which can then be fed into a computer-based ...

A Swiss researcher announced Thursday that treating maple wood with a certain mushroom improves its sound quality.

... a steady stream of smoke, this wholly new type of mike eliminates virtually all mechanical interference with the sound. That means crisper recordings, and more consistent sound quality coming...

... to hear the teacher. Not surprisingly, studies have shown that student performance is connected to the sound quality of the classroom. Although room acoustics can be improved by adding sound-absorbing ...

... from the person's face and lip movements to help you interpret what you hear, and this benefit increases when the sound quality rises to moderately noisy, said Dr. Wei Ji Ma, ...

... of reciprocally-tuned components that vastly improve the sound quality and clarity of video and telephone conferences compared ... , which ensures low-delay hi-fi quality even at low bit-rates. An echo ...

Poor image and sound quality is encountered all too frequently in the world of video and telephone conferencing, but powerful compression technologies are set to consign these problems to the past -- ...