Volume 2

Defensive Audiology: Balancing On Your Back Leg

In this issue’s Back to Basics, our resident audiology (and karate) black belt, Marshall Chasin, gives us a lesson in how to practice “Defensive Audiology.”

Getting a Little Batty for Audiology

Marshall Chasin has all the (audiology) answers on how to evade a bat’s echolocation signal and come up with a survival strategy.

What Do Spondees, Math (and Music) Have In Common?

It is almost as if music has something in common with everything − psychology, physiology, acoustics, engineering, most areas of the arts, and now the lowly spondee – Marshall Chasin tells us why.

Volume 1

Slope of PI Function Is Not 10%-per-dB in Noise for All Noises and for All Patients

Editor-in-Chief Marshall Chasin gives us a very interesting Back to Basics column with his entry “Slope of PI Function Is Not 10%-per-dB in Noise for All Noises and for All Patients.”

What is “Soft,” “Medium,” and “Loud” for Speech and Music?

Marshall Chasin gives us the scoop on What is “Soft,” “Medium,” and “Loud” for Speech and Music?

Bell Labs and the Case of the Missing Fundamental

Marshall Chasin provides the answer to the Bell Labs mystery of the missing fundamental.

What is “Effective Quiet” for Music and Noise?

Marshall Chasin tell us What is “Effective Quiet” for Music and Noise.

The Limitations and the Benefits of a Flared Tubing

Marshall Chasin explores the limitations and the benefits of a flared tubing.