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The preferred sound quality of three loudspeakers was rated by listeners within four domestic-sized rooms. Evaluations of binaural recordings/reproductions of the same loudspeaker/room combinations were also made. Both live and binaural measurements showed the room had statistically insignificant effects on listener loudspeaker preferences. In a second binaural experiment each loudspeaker was compared among the rooms. In contrast, the room was the main significant effect on listener preferences, while the loudspeaker was not significant. These contrasts in loudspeaker and room effects indicate that subjective measurements of sound quality are relative measurements strongly biased by the context in which the measured objects are compared.
Author (s): Olive, Sean E.; Schuck, Peter L.; Sally, Sharon L.; Bonneville, Marc
Affiliation:
National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ; Canadian Audio Research Consortium Audio Products International Ltd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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AES Convention: 99
Paper Number:4092
Publication Date:
1995-10-06
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Session subject:
Perception and Subjective Evaluation
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Olive, Sean E.; Schuck, Peter L.; Sally, Sharon L.; Bonneville, Marc; 1995; The Variability of Loudspeaker Sound Quality Among Four Domestic-Sized Rooms [PDF]; National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ; Canadian Audio Research Consortium Audio Products International Ltd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; Paper 4092; Available from: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=7674
Olive, Sean E.; Schuck, Peter L.; Sally, Sharon L.; Bonneville, Marc; The Variability of Loudspeaker Sound Quality Among Four Domestic-Sized Rooms [PDF]; National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ; Canadian Audio Research Consortium Audio Products International Ltd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; Paper 4092; 1995 Available: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=7674
@article{olive1995the,
author={olive sean e. and schuck peter l. and sally sharon l. and bonneville marc},
journal={journal of the audio engineering society},
title={the variability of loudspeaker sound quality among four domestic-sized rooms},
year={1995},
number={4092},
month={october},}