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Lowering the Volume: How Headphones Can Cause Hearing Damange
Imagine walking to the subway on a beautiful day, the sun is shining, you have your sunglasses on and your headphones are snug in your ears. …
December 3, 2020
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Investigating Ringing Rocks: Pennsylvania’s Natural Acoustic Mystery
About 35 miles north of Acentech’s Philadelphia office lies Ringing Rocks County Park: charmingly woodsy, easily accessible, and….generally mobbed on weekends. Parking in the cramped dirt…
November 12, 2020
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Listening In: Sound Monitoring, Surveillance, and Spy Acoustics
When people see sound measurement equipment they often picture a much different world of acoustics, filled with intrigue and espionage. Stories of spies capture our attention,…
October 29, 2020
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A Transforming Industry: How Architectural Acoustics has Changed
As a 60+ year observer of the field of architectural acoustics, mechanical and electrical noise and vibration control in addition to exterior noise from aircraft, street…
October 1, 2020
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Jazz as a Paradigm for The New Workplace
[with apologies to Charlie Parker and David Foster Wallace] Chasin’ the Bird Acentech’s role as consultants gives us the opportunity to interact with brilliant thinkers, sincere…
September 17, 2020
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Readying Your K-12 Classroom for In-Person Learning: Classroom Acoustics Tips
Parents, teachers, and students have spent the past six months thinking about how to best prepare for a new year of learning in the midst of…
September 10, 2020
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Cosmic Acoustics Part 2
In Cosmic Acoustics Part 1, we discussed acoustics on the scale of the observable universe. We look at the makeup of our early universe and studied…
September 3, 2020
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Effective Communications in the Era of Social Distancing: Understanding Speech Intelligibility
Being able to communicate with co-workers and clients especially at job sites just got a lot harder these past six months. The need to wear a…
August 20, 2020
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Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) and Public Safety
by Tyler Tracy (a special thank you to Co-author Marielle Frederick for helping to put this together). As members of the AEC community, we feel it…
August 10, 2020
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