AnalogSteph
Major Contributor
So this one might get me the stupid question of the week award or something... but anyway: We all know hearing threshold curves, which are taken using narrow bandwidth tones AFAIK. What do they mean for minimum detectable white noise level though? How low typically is it? Are there any studies? I didn't find anything but that doesn't have to mean a whole lot.
By my reckoning the answer should be "lower than you might think" (maybe around 5 dB SPL with young / largely unmolested hearing?), but I can't prove it.
By my reckoning the answer should be "lower than you might think" (maybe around 5 dB SPL with young / largely unmolested hearing?), but I can't prove it.