Setting up a new audio system can be a chore, but if you look for these settings, they can help you get on the path to better ...

Remember when TVs were big, boxy, and actually had decent speakers? Those days are long gone. As TVs have become thinner and sleeker, their built-in speakers have taken a serious hit in quality. Even ...

Up until five years ago, the Academy had a separate category for sound mixers and sound editors. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor A Complete Unknown, Dune Part 2, Emilia Perez, Wicked and The Wild ...

I remember it like it was yesterday: sitting in my car cranking up Van Halen's 5150 and spending the entire album fiddling with the 10-band EQ I'd installed to get the best sound possible. You don't ...

“The sound machine can generate any of several types of sound, from nature [or] music,” Dr. Cory Portnuff, an audiologist at the University of Colorado Health’s Hearing and Balance Clinic, says. In ...

Marc Storch is a commerce writer currently based in Denver, Colorado. He is passionate about making tech accessible to all and being excellent to each other. Outside of writing about tech and video ...

Oscars Best Sound Commentary (Updated Jan. 9, 2026): The Oscars shortlist has been announced for best sound, and the category is a symphony of chaos (in all the best ways). War film (sort of?) “One ...