Hyper-Compression, Environmental Noise and Preferences for the Ear Bud Listening Experience

Taylor RW, Miranda L. Hyper-Compression, Environmental Noise and Preferences for the Ear Bud Listening Experience. In: AES Convention 141. Audio Engineering Society; 2016. Paper 9657. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18461

@inproceedings{Taylor2016_18461,
  author = {Taylor, Robert W. and Miranda, Luis},
  title = {{Hyper-Compression, Environmental Noise and Preferences for the Ear Bud Listening Experience}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 141},
  note = {Paper 9657},
  year = {2016},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18461}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Hyper-Compression, Environmental Noise and Preferences for the Ear Bud Listening Experience
AU  - Taylor, Robert W.
AU  - Miranda, Luis
T2  - AES Convention 141
M1  - Paper 9657
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/09/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18461
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The notion that compressed music performs more effectively in automobiles as a consequence of the background noise present has been widely accepted and particularly relevant to classical music with a very large dynamic range. The environmental noise can act as a masking agent that can interrupt the listening experience when sections of the music fall below the noise level. Similarly, it is assumed that the hyper-compression of contemporary popular music fulfills a similar function when using ear bud headphones in noisy environments. This study examines this assumption and can find no evidence to support the practice. It is suggested that contemporary music most likely does not have a sufficiently large enough dynamic range regardless to support its use in this instance.
ER  -