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Steve Temme/Sean Olive - The Correlation Between Distortion Audibility and Listener Preferences

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by Dreyka, Sep 26, 2016.

  1. Dreyka

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    A number of headphones were virtualized using a Stax SR-009 and equalized to the same frequency response. The research found that the two forms of distortion that correlated strongly with listeners preferences were THD and non-coherent distortion. IMD and multi-tone distortion did not correlate well.

    The other thing to note is that listeners had difficulty telling apart most of the headphones except for headphone D.

    http://www.innerfidelity.com/conten...e-stuff-possibly-useful-headphone-enthusiasts


     
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    LOL, that's because all the "headphones" were played through an SR-009. Lame.
     
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