Re: A problem about the relationship between perceived quality and loudness! thanks

["Crockett, Brett" <BGC@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sony's Inflator product actually introduces even harmonics (like a tube
amp) to make music sound louder. 

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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception
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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 5:21 AM
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Subject: Re: A problem about the relationship between perceived quality
and loudness! thanks

Perhaps not exactly what you asked about, but many years ago (1970s?)
there was a study where subjects were asked to adjust the volume of
various audio systems until they were "loud".  The surprising result was
that high-powered systems were turned up to much higher output levels
than low-powered systems before they were "loud".  The explanation given
was that subjects apparently correlated increased distortion (more than
actual SPL) with "loud". 

Since amp distortion shoots up as the amp begins to clip at its maximum
output level, the low-powered amps of course began to distort while
producing lower SPL than the high- powered amps.


Best regards,

Bob Masta


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On 3 Jul 2008 at 18:20, Junyong You wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> As we know, loudness is an important audio index for human perception.

> Is there anyone studied the relationship between quality distortion 
> and the loudness? I mean, if the same objective distortion happened on

> the different audios (or segments) with different loudness, then, is 
> there some difference between the perceived qualities of these two
audios (or segments)?
> 
> I guess the loudness should influence the perceived quality of same 
> distortion, and for the very low and very high loudness, such 
> influence maybe not very great, but with ordinary loudness, perhaps 
> the perceived distortion will increase following the loudness.
> 
> This is just my guess, anybody can help to work for it with me? Or 
> could you please give me some advice and references?
> 
> Thank you very much, any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Junyong

Bob Masta
 
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