Swedish founder of Elevating Sound - Your Sound Guide to a Sound World. I have set out to inform and educate about progressive sound thinking, leading sound innovations and issues around noise in society.
Family & Kids
Why are some toys so noisy that they can damage your kid's hearing? That's a question I wish I didn't have to pose as we have just entered the year 2014. And this is in the US - a market known for its tough
Household Appliances
Excessive noise coming from a dishwasher can be a real nuisance. In small- to midsized kitchens, the noise level can be so overbearing that it's uncomfortable to be in the kitchen when the dishwasher is on. And in many modern homes with open/integrated kitchen-living room layouts, a
Health
We are launching a new, regular feature on Elevating Sound called the Tinnitus Dialogue. Tinnitus Dialogue will be a peer-to-peer advisory series on issues related to living with tinnitus and hyperacusis. The aim is to offer a supportive voice to help you and your loved ones manage your condition/s
Health
Elevating Sound has now branched out from the Web at elevatingsound.com to also include Facebook. If you would like to show your support for Elevating Sound, please visit and "Like" our Facebook page. We hope to grow our community via Facebook and offer a convenient way to
Quiet Cars
Are you dissatisfied with your current car in terms of its excessive interior noise level; be it road noise, wind noise, engine noise and/or miscellaneous rattles and squeaks? And do you feel a bit confused as to how to best find a quieter car that suits your needs? I
Noise Pollution
When reading about quiet and noisy cars, there are often misunderstandings when it comes to the different types of noise that come into play. I would therefore like to briefly explain the two main dimensions to consider. External Noise The external noise is about the noise that is generated outside
Health
Guest Post by Canadian Audiologist Jan L Mayes There is no cure for tinnitus. Nothing that helps 100% of people who try it. Despite cure $ale$ marketing. If there was a cure, then wealthy celebrities with tinnitus would fly anywhere on the globe to be cured. And they are still
Branding & Marketing
The Stockholm-based Hi-Fi store Pause Ljud & Bild has taken the concept of portable speakers to a whole new level. They deliver a portable mini-speaker that comes as part of a business card, which can be used when playing music with your smart phone. The in-your-wallet, analog speaker suits perfectly
Quiet Cars
For those of us who prioritize comfort and refinement in terms of the interior noise level in a car, it is great that there are various tests published. There are way too few of them, but at least there are some out there to guide us - yet in the
Quiet Cars
I would like to leverage Elevating Sound as a platform to really explore the issue of cars being too noisy, in particular the burdensome road noise when driving on rough/coarse asphalt/surface. My rather grand objective is for the automotive industry to take notice of this site and start
Quiet Cars
All cars will generate a certain level of wind noise, which is audible inside the cabin of the vehicle. But there are many causes of wind noise. And there are ways to try to keep it down. Naturally, when it's windy outside, you'll hear more wind
Consumer Electronics
There are exciting advancements being made in the area of speech recognition. There's Nuance Communications doing exciting things with Apple's Siri and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software. And then there's exciting work coming out of Microsoft Research, who has made a speech recognition breakthrough for