When Jim Otto opened Sound Spectrum in 1967, it wasn't just to sell vinyl–he wanted to turn people onto the best music in the world. '67 was the year of the Monterey Pop Festival, a three-day event ...

Wave Baker, a longtime employee of Sound Spectrum, will tell anyone who listens that the place has “an energy of its own.” So when the Laguna Beach-based record shop, which opened on South Coast ...

The circuit has been designed to create a spectrum analyzer that will provide an analysis of a sound to determine at various frequencies, the volume of sounds that make up the overall sound spectrum.

Forty years ago, mathematician Mark Kac asked the theoretical question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" If drums of different shapes always produce their own unique sound spectrum, then it should ...