Sensory Profiling of High-End Loudspeakers Using Rapid Methods-Part 4: Flash Profile with Expert Assessors

Arrieta Sagredo I, Moulin S, Bech S. Sensory Profiling of High-End Loudspeakers Using Rapid Methods-Part 4: Flash Profile with Expert Assessors. In: AES Convention 146. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 10134. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20267

@inproceedings{ArrietaSagredo2019_20267,
  author = {Arrieta Sagredo, Irene and Moulin, Samuel and Bech, Søren},
  title = {{Sensory Profiling of High-End Loudspeakers Using Rapid Methods-Part 4: Flash Profile with Expert Assessors}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 146},
  note = {Paper 10134},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20267}
}

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TI  - Sensory Profiling of High-End Loudspeakers Using Rapid Methods-Part 4: Flash Profile with Expert Assessors
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AB  - This study is the fourth in a series of papers investigating different rapid sensory profiling methods applied to audio stimuli [1, 2, 3]. In particular, this paper considers Flash Profile, a verbal-based method that allows assessors to use their own vocabulary, for perceptual audio evaluation. A listening test was conducted with expert listeners investigating the ability of Flash Profile to describe and discriminate five sets of high-end loudspeakers. The influence of using different audio-stimuli in order to get a broader perceptual image is supported by doing a track by track analysis, using Multiple Factor Analysis [4, 5]. The results suggest that the differences between loudspeakers lie in two main dimensions related to the timbral and spatial characteristics of the stimuli. Flash Profile seem to be a time-efficient tool for visualization and reduction of perceptual dimensions, being useful for the description and discrimination of a set of audio stimuli with medium to small audible differences.
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