{"id":8836,"date":"2026-06-11T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:28:39","slug":"video-basics-of-sound-and-acoustics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/11\/video-basics-of-sound-and-acoustics\/","title":{"rendered":"B&amp;O Tech: Basics of Sound and Acoustics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>#98 in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/category\/bang-olufsen\/\">a series of articles<\/a>&nbsp;about the technology behind&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bang-olufsen.com\/\">Bang &amp; Olufsen<\/a>&nbsp;loudspeakers<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve started working with a number of my colleagues on a series of videos for internal training at Bang &amp; Olufsen. They were kind enough to make some of these videos publicly available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This first one explains the basics: how sound is produced, how it travels through air, and some of its basic measures like the speeds of sound, frequency, wavelength, amplitude, and why sound gets quieter with distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1. Basics of Sound and Acoustics\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1200048520?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#98 in&nbsp;a series of articles&nbsp;about the technology behind&nbsp;Bang &amp; Olufsen&nbsp;loudspeakers I&#8217;ve started working with a number of my colleagues on a series of videos for internal training at Bang &amp; Olufsen. They were kind enough to make some of these videos publicly available. This first one explains the basics: how sound is produced, how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,4,32,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acoustics","category-audio","category-bang-olufsen","category-hearing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-2iw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}