There are many obnoxiously loud sounds in this world. Upstairs neighbors, for example. The Amazon delivery person when your newborn is trying to sleep. Dogs. Mother-in-laws. If you lived next door ...

I’ve worked as an editor or writer in audio publishing for more than 30 years, and I’ve previously served as a consultant on speaker tuning and measurement for some of the world’s biggest ...

The pistol shrimp is a small creature that lives in the ocean and measures just two inches, but it is the loudest animal on ... marine environments around the world, especially in coral reefs.

The world’s loudest primate, howler monkeys can emit ... around the same volume if you were standing 15 feet (4.6 m) from ...

Think ‘D&D party’ size – this isn’t the loudest speaker in the world and it will best suit medium- to small-sized groups. In my (very studious) tests, the Miniroll sounded decent at up to ...

Flat panel speakers are heavily reliant on the material they’re mounted on for the best acoustic quality. In particular, for DML (distributed mode loudspeaker) speakers, sound is produced ...

The world's greatest stage is the sprawling Midtown Manhattan complex where leaders meet each year to discuss humanity's future. The United Nations' most powerful body — the Security Council ...

A 14-year-old cat has broken the Guinness World Record for the loudest purr - from the comfort of her favourite cushion. Bella, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, achieved a purr measuring 54.6 ...

For the past few years, I've been rather frequently attending car races, and I've discovered that an indispensable piece of equipment is a set of earplugs. As a member of the media, I usually have ...