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Welcome to Elevating Sound! We’re all affected by the ever-present sound and noise that is integral to our everyday life. On the one hand, the beauty of sound and acoustics done well moves and engages us. It enrichens our lives. But when sound is manifested in less attractive and even dangerous ways, noise can have a direct and/or indirect detrimental impact on our lives. Noise is not just a nuisance. It also kills a large number of people every year. There is a growing global movement that is increasingly engaged by the beauty of sound and the ugliness of noise. These vibrations in the air affect us humans in a wide range of different ways. Some should be embraced and celebrated while others should be condemned and fought against. As a consequence of this movement, we are also seeing a quiet revolution emerging where companies are beginning to address the largely untapped, growing customer need of products that are quiet and more pleasant to use and experience. The immense commercial potential will increasingly make quiet offerings a must-have in many different product categories in order to maintain or take leadership in a given category. With a passion for the beauty of sound and acoustics, and the importance of ensuring a high quality of sound and reducing invasive unhealthy noise, Elevating Sound is a web portal dedicated to sound. We have set out to inform and educate about progressive sound thinking, leading sound innovations and detrimental issues around noise in society. Our aim is to share knowledge and insights to promote a world that embraces beautiful and engaging sound, while it rejects low-quality sound and noise that pollutes our lives and negatively affects our health. Magnus KählerElevating Sound was founded by Magnus Kähler from Sweden. He has had a life-long interest in sound, which was further heightened as he, around 25 years ago, started suffering from tinnitus and hyperacusis. He actively observes and absorbs any sound experience that he encounters in everyday life. He perceives wide-spread lack of knowledge about sound and noise among the very people who are responsible for the sound generated in society. Despite millions and millions of people suffering from different noise-induced ear/hearing conditions, there is also an apparent lack of empathy and understanding for how sound impacts the lives of these people. Hearing damage is treated as a low-status handicap where regulations are often rather protecting the people behind the noise rather than caring for people’s health and developing a society that embraces the value-adding aspects of sound and defies the damaging consequences of noise.