Auditory Adaptation to Loudspeakers and Listening Room Acoustics

Pike C, Brookes T, Mason R. Auditory Adaptation to Loudspeakers and Listening Room Acoustics. In: AES Convention 135. Audio Engineering Society; 2013. Paper 8971. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17019

@inproceedings{Pike2013_17019,
  author = {Pike, Cleopatra and Brookes, Tim and Mason, Russell},
  title = {{Auditory Adaptation to Loudspeakers and Listening Room Acoustics}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 135},
  note = {Paper 8971},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17019}
}

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AB  - Timbral qualities of loudspeakers and rooms are often compared in listening tests involving short listening periods. Outside the laboratory, listening occurs over a longer time course. In a study by Olive et al. (1995) smaller timbral differences between loudspeakers and between rooms were reported when comparisons were made over shorter versus longer time periods. This is a form of timbral adaptation, a decrease in sensitivity to timbre over time. The current study confirms this adaptation and establishes that it is not due to response bias but may be due to timbral memory, specific mechanisms compensating for transmission channel acoustics, or attentional factors. Modifications to listening tests may be required where tests need to be representative of listening outside of the laboratory.
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