Published on Dec. 10, 2023, 2:09 p.m.

It’s 1978. Somewhere over the Atlantic, an audio engineer and MIT professor is on a flight from Zurich to Boston, attempting to…

Published on March 8, 2025, 7:58 a.m.

Close your eyes. Picture the scene. The heavy, thudding footsteps that shake a glass of water on a dashboard. The tense whisper…

Published on May 27, 2023, 8:32 p.m.

There is a unique magic in putting on a pair of headphones. In one fluid motion, the chaotic symphony of the outside world fade…

Published on Nov. 7, 2024, 11 a.m.

What is *real* sound? Is it the raw, vibrating air of a concert hall, a fleeting moment of acoustic perfection? Or is it the cr…

Published on Dec. 10, 2023, 10:03 a.m.

It began, as great innovations often do, not in a pristine laboratory, but with a moment of profound annoyance. The year was 19…

Published on July 15, 2025, 2:19 a.m.

In our living rooms, a quiet war is waged daily. It’s a conflict between two deeply held desires: the pursuit of pure, unblemis…

Published on July 14, 2025, 11:32 a.m.

Consider two distinct moments in time. The first is 1972. A single button is pressed on a sculpture of aluminum and rosewood. A…

Published on July 14, 2025, 6:52 a.m.

The human desire to carry music is as old as music itself. We’ve carted gramophones to picnics, clipped transistor radios to ou…

Published on Nov. 7, 2024, 9:41 a.m.

There’s a unique magic to walking through a city like Montreal in late afternoon. It’s a symphony of a thousand tiny events: th…

Published on Nov. 7, 2024, 9:02 a.m.

It began not in the polished chrome of a Silicon Valley campus, but in the quiet, unassuming halls of London's Royal National T…

Published on Nov. 7, 2024, 8:47 a.m.

The symphony of the city is rarely harmonious. It’s a chaotic crescendo of screeching subway brakes, the hiss of a café’s espre…

Published on Nov. 7, 2024, 8:16 a.m.

It all started, as many revolutions do, with a moment of intense frustration. The year was 1978. Dr. Amar Bose, a professor at …

Published on June 13, 2023, 5:19 p.m.

The hum of the city is a language we all understand, a relentless conversation of screeching subway brakes, overlapping chatter…

Published on May 2, 2023, 3:12 p.m.

The cabin of the Boeing 777 is a pressure cooker of sound. It’s not just one noise, but a chaotic symphony of them: the deep, b…

Published on June 10, 2023, 5:42 p.m.

It began, as many revolutions do, not with a bang, but with a quiet frustration. The year is 1978. Dr. Amar Bose, a brilliant M…

Published on June 2, 2023, 10:08 p.m.

There’s a unique exhaustion that comes from living in the 21st century. It’s not just physical, but auditory. It’s the ceaseles…

Published on June 4, 2023, 5 p.m.

I still remember the distinct, plastic *click* of a cassette tape locking into place. For those of us who came of age in the 19…

Published on June 12, 2023, 11:13 a.m.

Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine you’re sitting in a barber’s chair. You hear the electric buzz of clippers approaching fr…

Published on July 31, 2023, 9:31 a.m.

It began, as many great ideas do, with a moment of frustration. The year was 1978, and Dr. Amar Bose was on a transatlantic fli…

Published on May 2, 2023, 2:29 p.m.

Imagine yourself suspended 35,000 feet in the air, encased in an aluminum tube hurtling through the stratosphere at 500 miles p…