Are you a Windows Vista beta tester? Have you noticed that startup sound that plays just as the PC gets to the point ready to accept your logon password? Yes. OK. It's a strange example of an arrogant ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

A sound-pressure meter was used to test the volume of each speaker, in decibels, using an iPhone tuned to volume-level ten and placed a metre from the speaker. "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane was ...

You can always tell when it's the day after a big Apple news day, because we end up writing and publishing stories like this... iClarified (via Cult of Mac) recently updated their sound level test for ...

I get offered a lot of Bluetooth speakers for review, and turn down most of them because I’ve experienced <insert company name here>’s prior offerings and have been left decidedly unimpressed. But the ...

If the sound volume on your Windows computer has become too low, here are some possible solutions that you can use to fix the problem. The issue may be caused due to software, or it could be ...

The iPhone has gotten considerably better over the years, but which iPhone is the loudest? iClarified ran the numbers in a recent video, in which a decibel meter was placed beneath the speaker of ...

I paired an old Pioneer 5.1 receiver with 5 speakers (two floorspeakers, one center, two bookshelf; no sub) and everything seemed cool.<BR><BR>I soon noticed, however, that sound from the center was ...

You can get better sound for less. Feels all a bit unnecessary. Expensive. Wastes plastic rather than reuses it. Brands spent an incredible $247 billion on social media ads in 2024. Get it right and ...