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Entries by Pat Brown

Protecting Your Most Essential Acoustical Tester

December 15, 2025/by Pat Brown

by Richard Honeycutt, PhD.

Most people are exposed to excessive sound levels long before they know the potential for hearing damage.

Personal Experience
I first became aware of hearing-damage risk from loud sounds in the mid-1960s, in the context of … Read more

Keeping the Sound at a Certain Area

December 15, 2025/by Pat Brown

by Hadi Sumoro

A local noise code establishes a sound level limit at the property line. This study presents the thought process to accomplish this.

While the primary focus of a sound system is to evenly distribute sound, there are … Read more

SynAudCon Test CD – A Blast from the Past

November 26, 2025/by Pat Brown

The SynAudCon Test CD was produced in 1995. The content is as useful today as it was then. The “Royer Tracks” have become an unofficial standard for speech-testing sound systems.

SynAudCon grad Stephen Brown contacted us a few weeks back

Direct Field Coverage – Where intuition and modeling meet

September 26, 2025/by Pat Brown

This is a short case-study to illustrate the role of computer modeling when placing loudspeakers in a venue. Why guess when you can get it right?

Coverage is not intuitive. If you get it wrong, there’s no way to fix … Read more

Windows Apps on a Mac? Try CrossOver!

September 26, 2025/by Pat Brown

Virtual environments for running Windows apps on a Mac are computationally intensive and complicated. For the casual user, there’s another alternative.

SynAudCon’s online training courses utilize two apps generated specifically for them. These are CAFViewer™ and IntelliKwik™. Both … Read more

Why 8 Ohms? – Part 2 – Voltage-Referenced Specifications

June 30, 2025/by Pat Brown

Despite their name, audio power amplifiers don’t amplify power. They produce a higher voltage copy of the input voltage, along with current as demanded by the load impedance.

As audio becomes increasingly digital, there remains two major design decisions rooted … Read more

Mains/Sub Alignment – A Different Take

March 21, 2025/by Pat Brown

Mains/Sub Alignment is a popular topic. Pat shares a logical, accurate, Time Domain approach that can be implemented with free software.

It’s all summed up in four instructional videos, prefaced by a short introduction video.

Outline
1. Timing … Read more

Loudspeaker Maximums Part 2 – Peak SPL

January 11, 2025/by Pat Brown

Finding the Maximum Linear Peak Sound Pressure Level

In the first part of this two-part series, I described how to determine a loudspeaker’s maximum continuous input voltage (MIV) regarding heat. The MIV is the maximum RMS input voltage before the … Read more

Musician’s Ear Plugs Comparison Study

December 23, 2024/by Pat Brown

Can sound be attenuated and the fidelity preserved using musician’s ear plugs?

As the population ages, hearing damage has moved to the forefront of public consciousness. Many older folks are realizing (often too late) that they had some bad listening … Read more

Amplifier Sensitivity – Is Yours Optimized?

October 22, 2024/by Pat Brown

The amplifier’s gain/sensitivity switch allows you to minimize the noise floor of your sound system. Learn how to properly set it.

An amplifier has an input and an output. The output power rating gets a lot of attention, but this … Read more