Seattle-Sound

I love when I get to buy something new. It makes me all giddy inside. It does not even matter what it is exactly, if it is new, I get pumped. This week I get to purchase some new headphones. I am definitely stoked about that.

Picking out headphones is like getting new running shoes. First of all you do not want to get something that is not compatible to what your primary goal and functions ...

Finding the right sound system for your motorcycle can be a grueling process.  You know you’re going to need something loud, that you can actually hear above the roaring wind that races past you as you drive along the highways.   That isn’t always easy to achieve, especially if your bike didn’t come with a high quality stock audio system.  Even if it did, sound systems that are exposed to elements wear faster than enclosed ones, so chances are you ...

Sometimes we do not think about all of the sounds that we hear throughout the day unless they cause us some annoyance or to cringe and cover our ears.  If you are like me then you spend most of your day with ear buds in your ears listening to pleasant music instead of listening to yourself and all of your co-workers plucking away at the keyboard.  While you don’t spend your time thinking about sounds and noises, today we are ...

Your boat is not just a vehicle for you to cruise around on the water with.  It is probably a tool for you to enjoy some of your favorite hobbies.  You know like you might use you boat for fishing or water sports.  Because it is more than just a boat to you, should you not have in it more than just a typical audio system?  Audio on your boat is just as important as your fleet tracking systems for you ...

It’s a fact that human ear can only tolerate so much sound.  Sound waves that enter the ear cause the tympanic membrane (also known as the eardrum) to vibrate. Humans are capable of hearing sounds waves with frequencies between 20 and 20,000 Hz. The three bones inside the human ear (called the malleus, incus, stapes) send these vibrations on to the cochlea, which is a snail-shaped structure filled with fluid that is located in the inner ear. All of this ...

When you think of sound systems, it’s likely images of gigantic woofers and speakers come to mind.  You know, the kind that can bounce you three blocks if you aren’t holding on to something grounded when they thump.  That’s usually in cars, or in someone’s house or apartment.  But a lot of us these days spend more and more time enjoying multimedia not only on our home stereo surround sound systems and car radios, but on our computers.  That’s where ...

I was surfing some videos this morning looking for easy ways to integrate my iPod into my car stereo system without having to resort to cables or adapters, etc..  I wanted it native, just like it had been built in.  Sometimes these things are hard to find out, but YouTube has just about any “how-to” you can imagine, with step by step instructions for most things. It’s really cool, and this video takes you through all the steps including the ...

Do you remember way back in the day when a big old Boom Box was on every shoulder out along the streets?  That was cutting edge slickness, back then.  You could carry around your music and it would sound good when you played it out into the air.  My friend and I once sold a Boom Box at the pawn shop to get money to buy a dog from the pet shop, no kidding, and that was worth something back ...

Before you go out in search of the best sounding speakers for your home theater, there are a few things about surround sound formats that you need to know, especially if Blu-ray is on your list of things to get this year.  Movies on Blu-ray discs consist of more than just higher-resolution video  at 1,080 lines of horizontal resolution, compared to the nere 480 lines on standard DVDs. Blu-ray discs also offer higher-resolution soundtracks. Audiological science studies have demonstrated  that ...