Ran into this interesting listening test by Klippel with regards to how much distortion you can hear.
This is the link: http://www.klippel.de/listeningtest/lt/
Just casually wanting to see the test, I went with the defaults and for some reason, the levels were exceptionally low. I had to set my headphone level to max and only test with a sealed headphone to even hear it.
On second try, clicking on the volume check provided much, much louder signal but I did not run this test.
I also forgot to select a speaker model, going with "--". Not sure what that represents. There is interesting set of choices in the drop down.
Anyway, was taking the test and recording a snapshot from time to time and it all of a sudden quit on me saying I had run enough. This is my snapshot:
The thing is ruthless when you miss, sending you back good number of steps. Once I got a sense of it, I was making good progress until it terminated me at -30 dB. Strangely it says this was my results:
-6 dB??? I went to -27 and possibly -30.
Also strange to see a larger number of people (313) detecting -45 dB but not higher distortions above that???
Fascinating that 1921 people could not get past the highest level of 18 dB!!! We have a lot of deaf audiophiles and seemingly, speaker engineers.
I am not very clear what the Real Speaker anchor is doing in there. Is that typical distortion simulated for a speaker? If so, I am able to hear distortion of -30 dB below that?
Here is the only bit on it in the Klippel paper:
Anyway, take the test and take a snapshot as you go along as the summary results seems wrong. Don't be shy about the outcome. You won't be judged unless your first name is Thomas, or Sal....
This is the link: http://www.klippel.de/listeningtest/lt/
Just casually wanting to see the test, I went with the defaults and for some reason, the levels were exceptionally low. I had to set my headphone level to max and only test with a sealed headphone to even hear it.
On second try, clicking on the volume check provided much, much louder signal but I did not run this test.
I also forgot to select a speaker model, going with "--". Not sure what that represents. There is interesting set of choices in the drop down.
Anyway, was taking the test and recording a snapshot from time to time and it all of a sudden quit on me saying I had run enough. This is my snapshot:
The thing is ruthless when you miss, sending you back good number of steps. Once I got a sense of it, I was making good progress until it terminated me at -30 dB. Strangely it says this was my results:
-6 dB??? I went to -27 and possibly -30.
Also strange to see a larger number of people (313) detecting -45 dB but not higher distortions above that???
Fascinating that 1921 people could not get past the highest level of 18 dB!!! We have a lot of deaf audiophiles and seemingly, speaker engineers.
I am not very clear what the Real Speaker anchor is doing in there. Is that typical distortion simulated for a speaker? If so, I am able to hear distortion of -30 dB below that?
Here is the only bit on it in the Klippel paper:
Anyway, take the test and take a snapshot as you go along as the summary results seems wrong. Don't be shy about the outcome. You won't be judged unless your first name is Thomas, or Sal....
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