Hello David, I insert foam earplugs tightly into my ears for 8 to 12 hours for about 4 days in a row when at work and find this re-sensitises my ears quite nicely for listening to my Ambisonic system and for picking out weak narrow band speech (SSB) from the white noise and other interference when listening to very weak signals on the amateur radio bands. The effects seem to last for days. May not work for everyone but it works for me.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: David Worrall <[email protected]> To: Surround Sound discussion group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:28 Subject: [Sursound] OT: ear freshening Hi all, In conducting extended listening tests involving the comparison of different odecs, it can be demonstrated that fatigue, due to the duration of the tests, ffects the results. he same effect can be observed by all of us who spend extended periods of time n concentrated audio listening. I often combat this effect do some 'ear-freshening' in the form of playing slow ttack pink noise for +/- 10-sec. It seems to 'clear the ears' faster than ilence. I have not found any empirical testing of this phenomena, so I am wondering if ther people do this, or something similar? I've be interested to hear if you do, or if you have some other strategy to eawaken/refresh your palling ears? David ______________________________________ rof. Dr. David Worrall merging Audio Research (EAR) udio Department nternational Audio Laboratories Erlangen raunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS m Wolfsmantel 33 1058 Erlangen elefon +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-62 77 ax +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-20 99 mail: [email protected] nternet: iis.fraunhofer.de _____________________________________ rof. Dr. David Worrall merging Audio Research (EAR) udio Department nternational Audio Laboratories Erlangen raunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS m Wolfsmantel 33 1058 Erlangen elefon +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-62 77 ax +49 (0) 91 31 / 7 76-20 99 -Mail [email protected] mailto:[email protected]> nternet www.iis.fraunhofer.de <http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/> enior Adjunct Research Fellow, ustralian National University. [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- n HTML attachment was scrubbed... RL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130815/a4c4c468/attachment.html> ______________________________________________ ursound mailing list [email protected] ttps://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130815/f713be15/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
