After revising a proposed update to the city’s noise ordinance to allow violations to be determined by decibel measurement, the Hagerstown City Council agreed Tuesday to introduce the measure later ...

Engineers are not just adding more insulation, they are reinventing how interior noise is captured, modeled, and judged so ...

A few weeks ago, we reported that Park Slope residents were complaining about relentless noise pollution from planes flying overhead. To be sure, Park Slope is not the only neighborhood regularly ...

One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a measure of relative intensity or ...