Loudspeaker Measurements and Their Relationship to Listener Preferences: Part 2

Toole FE. Loudspeaker Measurements and Their Relationship to Listener Preferences: Part 2. J Audio Eng Soc. 1986;34(5):323-348. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=5270

@article{Toole1986_5270,
  author = {Toole, Floyd E.},
  title = {{Loudspeaker Measurements and Their Relationship to Listener Preferences: Part 2}},
  journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
  volume = {34},
  number = {5},
  pages = {323--348},
  year = {1986},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=5270}
}

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AB  - Using the highly reliable subjective ratings from an earlier study, loudspeaker measurements have been examined for systematic relationships to listener preferences. The resuls has been a logical and orderly organization of measurements that can be used to anticipate listener opinion. With the restriction to listeners with near-normal hearing and loudspeakers of the conventional forward-facing configuration, the data offer convincing proof that a reliable ranking of loudspeaker sound quality can be achieved with specific combinations of high-resolution free-field amplitude-response data. Using such data obtained at several orientations it is possible to estimate loudspeaker performance in the listening room. Listening-room and sound-power measurements alone appear to be susceptible to error in that while truly poor loudspeakers can generally be identified, excellence may not be recognized. High-quality stereo reproduction is compatible with those loudspeakers yielding high sound quality; however, there appears to be an inherent trade-off between the illusions of specific image localization and the sense of spatial involvement.
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