Sentences with phrase «sound at ear»

Dolby Atmos adds an extra height channel to programmes, instead of having «regular» surround sound at ear level.

There are two «exciter» speakers hand - fitted in the headlining to bring the sound at ear - level.

Not exact matches

That officer — the fit younger man in his 30s — came with a more serious complaint: He had developed headaches, hearing problems and a sharp pain in one ear, especially, following a strange experience in which something like a beam of sound seemed to have been directed at his home.

Your denial of evolution sounds like nothing more than a child plugging his ears and shutting his eyes and chanting «LA LA LA» at the top of his lungs.

«Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand» sounds archaic to modern ears.

Quite a few college radio stations seem to be playing an awful lot of good stuff as far as rock goes... at least, to my ears much of it sounds as good as what was on....

The old Romans used the letter v for the sound we denote by a w: so that Caesar's boast, Veni, vidi, vici, might still at that time have been pronounced wainy, weedy, weeky, which does not actually impress the ear with power; and that may explain why he had to cross the Rubicon.

Christians put that proposition right up front, it is the most heavily advertised belief in history, and in the ears of someone disinclined to believe it, it sounds at least as silly as anything the Scientologists teach.

Rare indeed in philosophical works are passages like the one in the City of God where Augustine marvels at how some people can wiggle their ears, others can perfectly mimic the voices of other men, and some can even «produce musical sounds from their behind»!

The sight of Bryan making Brock Lesnar tap at SummerSlam this August would be music to the sound of Bryan's fans ears.

The hush calmer gives you a choice of three soothing white noise sounds to choose from; heartbeat, ocean waves or rain falling on a tin roof, all set at a safe volume for baby's ears.

Your ears delight at the sounds of your child's first «Mama!»

First, I don't know about you, but I've never put my sound machine on its most abrasive setting, turned it all the way up, and placed it within a foot of my son's ears for eight hours at a time.

Overall, they found that, at maximum volume, every one of the noise machines placed within 3 1/4 feet of infants» ears were capable of producing sounds that exposed the babies to more than 50 A-weighted decibels, what the study describes as «the current recommended noise limit for infants in hospital nurseries.»

There were several school board members and top district staff in the room, and everyone's ears pricked up at the sound of money.

Your baby's ears are getting better at picking up sounds.

Learn the symptoms so you can tell if your baby is suffering from colic: Crying that is a high pitched, ear - piercing sound; Grimacing or frowning face, with a pained expression; Red, flushed face; Clenched fists; Excessive gas (flatulence, farts, farting a lot, explosive farts or baby farting); Knees drawn up to chest; Baby looks like she or he is in pain; Often worse in the afternoon or evening (but can happen at any time).

That sounds very funny to my ears and I don't believe that such statement could come from the respected elder statesman who once told me at the Villa that he will never engage in a dialogue with somebody who wanted Nigeria to break up.

«This is a big step in determining the identity of key components of the molecular machinery that converts sound waves into electrical signals in the inner ear,» said the study's co-senior author, Gregory Frolenkov, of the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky.

It is rated at 23 dB in noise reduction, and combined with the amplifier shutting down when sound higher than 85 dB is detected, it will help to protect your ears.

Not only do these earmuffs protect your ears from damaging noises, they also amplify conversations and other ambient sounds at the same time.

This accoustical science app puts you at the center of the experiment: Hear with your eyes, see with your ears, make and modify sound, test your hearing, and more.

Try placing a ringing tuning fork atop your head, and your inner ear will pick up the sound, says Elizabeth Olson, an expert on hearing at Columbia University.

At night, sleepless, he presses his ear to the pillow and listens fearfully for the sound of his heart's «faint, brief snare - beats, like boot steps through wet snow.»

«The capacity of our brain to block out at least some sound is truly amazing, given that our ears are wide open all night long,» he says.

For days or even weeks at a time, these guns send a volley of ear - shattering sound through the ocean to impact the seafloor every ten seconds or so.

A savant named Eric could find what he called the «sweet spot» in a room full of speakers playing music, the spot where sound waves from the different sources hit his ears at exactly the same time.

At Bima, on the northeast coast of Sumbawa about forty miles east of Tambora, the British resident reported that the blasts sounded like «a heavy mortar fired close to his ear.»

«While there is concern about music players and other loud recreational sound exposure «damaging the ears of an entire generation,» in these participants, increasing use of music players and periodic attendance at concerts or clubs did not appear to cause the lasting damage everyone is concerned about.»

When Soares placed alligators in darkened tanks half filled with water, plugging their ears to eliminate sound cues, she found that the alligators reliably turned and snapped at disturbances caused by a single drop of water.

Therefore, children who have suffered repeated ear infections and associated hearing problems have fluctuating access to different speech sounds precisely at the age when this information is crucial in the early stages of learning to read.»

This puts it slightly out of phase (its wave peaks out of step) with the sound received at the closer ear.

But over time we start to home in on the sounds of our native language, in effect «tuning» our ears to a narrow set of frequencies, at the expense of others.

Examples include the cochlea in the inner ear, with its sophisticated hair cells and sound - mapping capabilities, and the retina at the back of the eyeball, onto which optical images are projected.

An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects to listen to the same sound twice with each ear, helping them to locate the sound's origin with pinpoint accuracy, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK.

The chip, unveiled in June, will allow radios to simultaneously listen to a wide range of frequencies — spanning all radio and television broadcasts, along with all cell phone traffic — the way that ears listen to and analyze many sound frequencies at once.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

«At a high level, we're interested in what makes music appealing to the ears, how we can better understand composition, or the essence of what makes Bach sound like Bach.

The comet's song would not be audible to the human ear because it is being emitted at 40 to 50 millihertz, far below the range of human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 hertz and 20 kilohertz.

The brain does not have direct access to; instead, when the sound is produced at a particular amplitude -LRB--RRB- and is heard against a background of other sounds -LRB--RRB-, the signal that the ear actually receives is the sound mixture.

The actual ear takes sound waves that vibrate at a specific frequency and transmutes that vibration in the inner hear to a electrical vibration, a liquid medium that stimulates brain reactions, that is assessed until there is a rhythm or pattern found that the brain understands.

The 5th chakra is the most susceptible to it because it operates at the level of sound and runs the ears, mouth and voice, all which are open chambers perfectly designed for the transmission and reception of sound waves.

The sound quality of the film was as good as an old record; classic, full, sketchy at times, but also pleasing to the ear, affording that you enjoy a bit of jazz.

The way life is somehow breathed into this crumbly den, the way the evocative sound design pounds at the audience's ears and the way the stunning black and white photography always allows viewers to investigate the frame and find tiny nuances they hadn't seen earlier.

The need to pay attention to your in - ear radio — which can sound off at any time — and the removal of automated radar systems set Ground Zeroes apart from the rest of the series.

Mixed in with their voices, which sound like they were handled by a bunch of pre-pubescent 3rd graders, is Jonze and Egger's unpolished and at times pretentious script, which, in its own right, will make your ears bleed.

This battle is protracted mercilessly beyond all reason, at an ear - shattering sound level, with incomprehensible Autobots and Decepticons sliced up into spurts of action with no sense of the space they occupy.

When Billy takes a phone call at the stadium, the sound of the crowd becomes muffled and the voice on the other end gets crisper every time Billy covers his ear.

It's a horrifying sight that'll have viewers covering their eyes and plugging their ears (God only knows what was used to create those sound effects), and Zahler puts splatter filmmakers like Eli Roth — who tried his hand at cannibal horror this year with The Green Inferno — to shame.

You'll get the best sound when the front and surround speakers are at or slightly above your ear level when you're seated.