Listener Adaptation in the Control Room: The Effect of Varying Acoustics on Listener Familiarization

King R, Leonard B, Levine S, Sikora G. Listener Adaptation in the Control Room: The Effect of Varying Acoustics on Listener Familiarization. In: AES Convention 135. Audio Engineering Society; 2013. Paper 8959. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17009

@inproceedings{King2013_17009,
  author = {King, Richard and Leonard, Brett and Levine, Scott and Sikora, Grzegorz},
  title = {{Listener Adaptation in the Control Room: The Effect of Varying Acoustics on Listener Familiarization}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 135},
  note = {Paper 8959},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17009}
}

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AB  - The area of auditory adaptation is of central importance to a recording engineer operating in unfamiliar or less-than-ideal acoustic conditions. This study prompts expert listeners to perform a controlled level-balancing task while exposed to three different acoustic conditions. The length of exposure is varied to test the role of adaptation on such a task. Results show that there is a significant difference in the variance of participants’ results when exposed to one condition for a longer period of time. In particular, subjects seem to most easily adapt to reflective acoustic conditions.
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