Toward an Unbiased Standard in Testing Laptop PC Audio Quality

Kondapalli R, Sung BZ. Toward an Unbiased Standard in Testing Laptop PC Audio Quality. In: AES Convention 132. Audio Engineering Society; 2012.pp. 8682:1-. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16320

@inproceedings{Kondapalli2012_16320,
  author = {Kondapalli, Ravi and Sung, Ben-Zhen},
  title = {{Toward an Unbiased Standard in Testing Laptop PC Audio Quality}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 132},
  pages = {8682:1-},
  year = {2012},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16320}
}

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AB  - For a rapidly growing population, laptop PCs and tablet devices have become a primary method for watching and listening to electronic media. Nonetheless, form factor restrictions and placing audio quality second to device functionality have left a gap in the overall quality of the listening experience. Multiple audio post-processing solutions exist from audio DSP developers that are included with laptop PCs from a specified manufacturer. These solutions aim to improve the audio experience for each device. However, the quality of audio produced by the outcome of these different post-processing solution/laptop PC pairings varies greatly. To date, there have been no blind systematic comparisons of the audio quality produced by laptop PCs and the subsequent pairing of a unique post-processing solution. Here we present an unbiased methodological approach for testing laptop PC devices and report results of audio quality for three different commercially available post-processing solutions as implemented on laptop PCs from two different manufacturers.
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