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Higher sound pressure above 85 dB tricks the listener into perceiving it's good. An old trick to sell bad speakers with audible distortion at lower sound volume and measurable even higher distortion at higher sound pressure. 1. Mechanical direct masking of nearby frequencies in the cochlea with...

Non-double-blind studies with subjective sound judgments are often not accurate. The order of rated sounds matters in simple "blind tests". Something a proper double-blind study is not affected by.

An important development of the spinorama technique could be, based on objective measurements, to extrapolate how in a given room (the customer's listening room) calculate the arrival time and loudness of dominant reflexes in the listening position relative to the direct sound. Based on this, it...

Aphantasia is the inability to evoke one's own imagined conscious images. "Anauralia" is the inability to evoke one's imagined conscious sounds. https://nautil.us/people-who-cant-picture-sound-in-their-minds-517529/?_sp=d08e4762-57b3-4197-8a41-d7d361f9fc05.1710337141622 How does the audiophile...

Correct understanding of hearing is much more complicated than psychoacoustics makes it seem. The hearing of sounds is divided into three main areas. All three areas can be found at all major universities — physics, neurophysiology and neuropsychology. Articles in "psychoacoustics" are mainly...

I quickly checked the study. The stimuli are relatively undefined concerning duration, relative loudness and frequency. Which words are used and how familiar the words are to subjects is unclear. Etc. The subjects' hearing status, number, age, gender etc. is unknown. The research area is...

When listening to mono music on a Yamaha NS1000, boxspeaker, height of 0.65 m next to an Apogee Duetta, dipol, height of 1.5 m, the sound from the Yamaha speaker was perceived as clearly smaller despite the possibility of reproducing higher sound pressure, and more bass with lower distortion...

When listening to mono music on a Yamaha NS1000, a height of 0.65 m next to an Apogee Duetta, a height of 1.5 m, the sound from the Yamaha speaker was perceived as clearly smaller despite the possibility of reproducing higher sound pressure, and more bass with lower distortion. Another box...

"Psychoacoustic researchers" usually have a technical background. In the physical dimension, only a few measurements are required to obtain sufficient validity and reliability. When they conclude how measurements in physics affect hearing they make a big mistake. Now "psychoacoustics...

My knowledge in this area is limited but I still want to try to understand. The signal pattern in neurons - trains of action potentials - is similar to the Fourier transform. Common sine signal action potentials are not that difficult to understand in relation to the Fourier transform. But what...

A team of researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Oxford University has found that some black holes produce distinctive sounds when they merge, regardless of their origin. https://www.techexplorist.com/universal-sound-black-holes/65815/

Physical silence usually does not bring internal sound silence in the psychological world. The brain receives stimuli from the ear's sensors in the case of physical sounds. In silence, the brain usually receives no information from the sensors in the ear. In physical silence, we usually...

Can you be more specific about what you mean?

"Can you measure imaging and sound stage?" As usual, the variables' data properties must be considered. Sound imaging and soundstage are subjective variables and can only be measured, and ranked, with double-blind studies, in the psychological dimension but not in the physical dimension. The...

Newly broken stereocilia on the hair cells in the inner ear are repaired within a week via a newly discovered process. Possibly, this new process could open up the repair of older injuries. I suspect there are many potential patients/customers here on this forum. The market for a pill with this...

Is transient response the most important thing for the perceived audio quality in a system? NO! If there are no objective distorting factors in the physical and psychological dimensions, there will never be any perceived problems. It´s very simple in the physical dimension, - audible...

Bone conduction is a difficult subject. Do you have any knowledge of transient hearing related to bone conduction.

Very close. It is a verified acoustic neuroma on the eighth cranial nerve on the left side. Unfortunately, the patient has no hearing on the left side.

Give me a validated and reproduced double-blind study that significantly verifies that the phase response is audible.

We have at least two sensors of sound in the human body that is relevant in this context. Roughly the ears and the thorax. The thoracic resonance is clearly noticeable at loud sound levels, clearly above 100 dB. Depending on body size, the resonance is between 40 - 60 Hz. A short signal pulse or...