The phrase "audible waves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to sound, acoustics, or physics to describe waves that can be heard by the human ear.
Example: "The speaker emitted audible waves that filled the entire room with music."
Alternatives: "sound waves" or "hearable waves".
Available only in Japan, the TS41 conveys sound to its user not by emitting audible waves but by sending vibrations to the cochlea through the bones of the ear.
RadioShack's Sound Level Meter, which reads sounds from 50 to 126dB across seven ranges, uses an omni-directional electrets condenser microphone to accurately pick up audible waves from all directions.
The collective sent audible waves of joy through the crowd with a surprise reunion during Pharrell's set of the aforementioned N.E.R.D., the Virginia Beach, Va.-born group also featuring Chad Hugo and Shay Haley.
One of the first acoustic ground cloaks was built to hide objects from audible waves (frequencies f∼ 2 4 kHz in air) and was fabricated using an acrylic polymer.
Michele Bachmann was asked during the Iowa G.O.P. debate what she meant when she said the Bible obliged her to "be submissive" to her husband, and there was an audible wave of boos — for the question, not the answer.
Masahide Yoneyama of Ricoh and colleagues at several other Japanese electronics firms in the early 1980's combined audible sound waves with ultrasound waves in a technique called amplitude modulation, or AM, often used in radio transmission.
Both audible sound waves from traditional speakers and ultrasound waves from a directional-sound system distort when they travel through the air; in a traditional sound system, the distortion slightly degrades the sound a listener ultimately hears.
For example, audible sound waves have wavelengths of about one metre, which easily diffract around commonplace objects.
For the birds: Chirp, an iPhone app, allows users to send links to each other using audible sound waves.
Traditional speakers generate audible sound waves that spread out in all directions like ripples from a pebble tossed in a pond.
The Dreampad: The pillow-based, $179 Dreampad from Integrated Listening Systems converts the electrical signals of app-supplied music into vibrations — not audible sound waves — that help the user fall asleep and stay asleep.
