Selecting Participants for Listening Tests of Multichannel Reproduced Sound

Wickelmaier F, Choisel S. Selecting Participants for Listening Tests of Multichannel Reproduced Sound. In: AES Convention 118. Audio Engineering Society; 2005. Paper 6483. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13199

@inproceedings{Wickelmaier2005_13199,
  author = {Wickelmaier, Florian and Choisel, Sylvain},
  title = {{Selecting Participants for Listening Tests of Multichannel Reproduced Sound}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 118},
  note = {Paper 6483},
  year = {2005},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13199}
}

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AB  - A selection procedure was devised in order to select listeners for experiments in which their main task will be to judge multi-channel reproduced sound. 91 participants filled in a web-based questionnaire. 78 of them took part in an assessment of their hearing thresholds, their spatial hearing, and their verbal production abilities. The listeners displayed large individual differences in their performance. 40 subjects were selected based on the test results. The self-assessed listening habits and experience in the web-questionnaire could not predict the results of the selection procedure. Further, the hearing thresholds did not correlate with the spatial-hearing test. This leads to the conclusion that task-specific performance tests might be the preferable means of selecting a listening panel.
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