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The sufferer becomes anxious to get away from the source of the loud sound and may get headaches. [1] It may also be related to, caused by, or confused with hyperacusis, extreme sensitivity to loud sounds. [5] Phonophobia also has been proposed to refer to an extreme form of misophonia. [6]
In telecommunications, the (digital) cliff effect or brick-wall effect is a sudden loss of digital signal reception.Unlike analog signals, which gradually fade when signal strength decreases or electromagnetic interference or multipath increases, a digital signal provides data which is either perfect or non-existent at the receiving end.
Tinnitus is a condition when a person hears a ringing sound or a different variety of sound when no corresponding external sound is present and other people cannot hear it. [1] Nearly everyone experiences faint "normal tinnitus" in a completely quiet room; but this is of concern only if it is bothersome, interferes with normal hearing, or is ...
Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, [1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.
Individuals with exploding head syndrome hear or experience loud imagined noises as they are falling asleep or are waking up, have a strong, often frightened emotional reaction to the sound, and do not report significant pain; around 10% of people also experience visual disturbances like perceiving visual static, lightning, or flashes of light.
Musical anhedonia is a neurological disorder characterized by an inability to derive pleasure from music. [1] People with this condition, unlike those suffering from music agnosia, can recognize and understand music but fail to enjoy it.
Flicker vertigo has been considered as a principle for various forms of non-lethal weapons. [6] [7] A related crowd-control device was invented by Charles Bovill, which "employed a combination of ultra-sonic waves and strobe lights to induce acute discomfort, sickness, disorientation and sometimes epilepsy." [8]
When wearing stereo headphones, people with unilateral hearing loss can hear only one channel, hence the panning information (volume and time differences between channels) is lost; some instruments may be heard better than others if they are mixed predominantly to one channel, and in extreme cases of sound production, such as complete stereo ...