Making Sound More Visual for Students With Hearing Loss in Your Virtual Classroom

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A great article about how to make your virtual meetings more inclusive to those with hearing loss

https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/blogs/making-sound-more-visual-for-students-with-hearing-loss-in-your-virtual-classroom

An acousticians dream: Noise cancelling Windows….

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It’s not exactly convenient for regular usage but it’s a start!

Noise-canceling headphones? Try noise-canceling windows

I’ve seen enough of these in the past month to warrant a look at the noise….

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Between 4 news and 2 police helicopters, I had had enough:

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/apl/noise_emissions/airport_aircraft_noise_issues/noise/

My Observations on TV Helicopters

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Just spent the weekend listening to helicopters covering protests. With the proliferation of drones, don’t you think it might be better (less provocative noise), cheaper (one guy with a joystick instead of multi-million dollar helo with expensive pilot) and above all QUIETER FOR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES for the TV Stations to use drones???

Pinnacle Donation

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Pinnacle Acoustics is proud to announce a donation of $1,000 to the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. We share in everyone’s desire to get over this crisis as quickly as possible, but in the meantime, please consider those in need and make a difference when you most can.

Please give if you can

https://www.pittsburghfoodbank.org/covid19/

Boating season starts soon and the industry is paying attention to noise control

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Today’s marine “sound proofers” are using complex acoustical physics to reduce, reflect, or control noise on a boat

The science of (marine) soundproofing

Happy New Year!

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Here’s to all friends of Pinnacle Acoustics for a Healthy and Prosperous 2020!

Not just individual noises, but the noise environment….

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“(H)earing is special among senses, Horowitz says. Sound can travel a long way. It will propagate through anything — the ground, water. It works at night, goes around corners. “Sounds give you sensory input that is not limited by field of vision.””

How Sound Shaped The Evolution Of Your Brain