I have several places where I listen, and I don’t listen the same way in any of them. That small reflection on my own habits is what made me pay particular attention to the panel “Listening Is Back — But No Longer Only in the Living Room,” held at IFA 2026 in Berlin. The premise was simple: for decades, we associated the best listening experience with the living room. Today, that experience is spread across headphones, the car, the soundbar, the office, and the different mome

The voice is there. So why do so many of us still reach for the remote or turn on subtitles? The problem may not be volume, but everything that happens to dialogue before it reaches us: the mix, the codec, the television, the room and, finally, our own hearing and attention. In this article, I explore why intelligibility has to be preserved from source to listener — and how technologies such as DTS Clear Dialogue, SpeakBar and Auracast are approaching different parts of the s

We usually think of automotive audio as entertainment. But as AI and driver-assistance systems evolve, sound is becoming something more: a way to guide attention, communicate risk, and help us notice what we might otherwise miss. In this article, I explore how audio is becoming part of the vehicle’s intelligence — and why the most important sound may not be music at all.

Some of the most powerful influences on our well-being are invisible. Sound is one of them. I've been thinking about this for a while. This article is where it landed.