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Convention Paper

Audibility of Linear Distortion with Variations in Sound Pressure Level and Group Delay

Authors: Geddes, Earl R.; Lee, Lidia W.

AES Convention 121 · Paper 6888 · October 2006

Abstract

Recent psychoacoustic studies of nonlinear distortion have yielded some new insights into what audible problems in loudspeaker might be related to. This paper will show the results of recent subjective tests which extend the work of various previous works to show that sound level significantly affects the perception of linear distortion in audio systems. This means that the hearing system itself is nonlinear and what has been thought of as being nonlinear distortion in the audio system may actually be a nonlinear perception directly in the receiver itself.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 121
AES Convention
121
Paper number
6888
Publication date
October 6, 2006
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Listening Tests
Affiliation
Eastern Michigan University; GedLee LLC (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper