Ruth Amos<\/a> visits the Acoustic Laboratories at the University of Salford<\/a>. She gets to experience the test chambers with their extreme acoustics, from the oppressive silence of the anechoic chamber, to the booming reverberation chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So this is an episode with a twist, as previous guest Ruth Amos<\/a> turns interviewer, and we hear about the acoustical engineering done by Inventive’s normal host Professor Trevor Cox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inventive Podcast is all about mixing fact and fiction, as it features groundbreaking engineers and brilliant writers. This episode features <\/span>a story exploring unusual hearing from science fiction writer Stephen Cox<\/a>. And yes, Trevor and Stephen are related. Stephen’s story The Magic Flute draws on Trevor’s Cadenza project<\/a>, that aims to improve how music sounds on hearing aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n