When specifying cooling equipment, engineers are faced with myriad decisions affecting performance and layout. One critical consideration is the noise emitted. As population density rises in major ...

You may have observed that older people have more difficulty following a conversation in a noisy environment. Most people attribute this problem to being deaf. However, many of these people are not ...

Sound-level measurements offer a conventional way to measure sound but do not contain frequency information, making it difficult to compare different sounds or vibration. Octave analysis filters the ...

From the January/February 2026 issue of Car and Driver. Sound is critical to the automotive experience. Sometimes we need lots of it, such as when we want to hear the sweet song produced by a V-12 ...

Noise in animal housing facilities is an environmental variable that can affect hearing, behavior and physiology in mice. The authors measured sound levels in two rodent housing rooms (room 1 and room ...

Of the vehicles we've measured so far using this methodology, the Genesis Electrified GV70 is the quietest at a 70-mph cruise, measuring 64 decibels and 18 sones. Comparatively, a Honda CR-V Sport ...