Hi all, In conducting extended listening tests involving the comparison of different codecs, it can be demonstrated that fatigue, due to the duration of the tests, affects the results. The same effect can be observed by all of us who spend extended periods of time in concentrated audio listening.
I often combat this effect do some 'ear-freshening' in the form of playing slow attack pink noise for +/- 10-sec. It seems to 'clear the ears' faster than silence. I have not found any empirical testing of this phenomena, so I am wondering if other people do this, or something similar? I've be interested to hear if you do, or if you have some other strategy to reawaken/refresh your palling ears? David ______________________________________ Prof. Dr. David Worrall Emerging Audio Research (EAR) Audio Department International Audio Laboratories Erlangen Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Am Wolfsmantel 33 91058 Erlangen Telefon +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-62 77 Fax +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-20 99 Email: [email protected] Internet: iis.fraunhofer.de ______________________________________ Prof. Dr. David Worrall Emerging Audio Research (EAR) Audio Department International Audio Laboratories Erlangen Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Am Wolfsmantel 33 91058 Erlangen Telefon +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-62 77 Fax +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-20 99 E-Mail [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Internet www.iis.fraunhofer.de <http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/> Senior Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian National University. [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130815/a4c4c468/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
