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Introduction to Acoustic Measurements

Authors: Darlington, Paul

AES Conference: UK 12th Conference: The Measure of Audio (MOA) · Paper MOA-07 · April 1997

Abstract

This tutorial paper reviews the process of instrumentation and measurement as applied to the acoustic and electroacoustic elements of audio systems. The dynamic nature of audio system components is shown to motivate the application of frequency domain techniques. These methods impose measurement bandwidth and frequency resolution constraints when practically implemented on digital instrumentation. The difficulties of isolating the performance of electroacoustic transducers from their acoustic environment are discussed and the limitations introduced by spatially sampling an acoustic field by single point microphone measurements are considered.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: UK 12th Conference: The Measure of Audio (MOA)
Paper number
MOA-07
Publication date
April 6, 1997
Session subject
The Measure of Audio
Affiliation
University of Salford, Salford, U.K. (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper