Hearing range describes the frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels. The human range...

Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the...

Audiology. Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear. Hearing loss may be present at birth or acquired at any time afterwards. Hearing loss may...

sound (with a true pipe) is C−1 (or CCCC), which is 8 Hz, below the range of human hearing and not visible on this chart. However, if acoustic combination...

20 Hz are known as infrasound. Different animal species have varying hearing ranges. Sound is defined as "(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle...

audible limit of human hearing in healthy young adults. The physical principles of acoustic waves apply to any frequency range, including ultrasound....

dynamic range compression, directionality, frequency lowering, and noise reduction. Modern hearing aids require configuration to match the hearing loss,...

of sound that most determines pitch. The generally accepted standard hearing range for humans is 20 to 20,000 Hz. In air at atmospheric pressure, these...

dog's hearing range is about 45 kHz, while a cat's is 64 kHz. It is thought that the wild ancestors of cats and dogs evolved this higher hearing range in...

and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range. High fidelity contrasts with the lower-quality "lo-fi" sound produced...