Loudness and Perception of sound

  • Toshio Sone (Research Institute of Electrical communication, Togoku University, Japan) ;
  • Yoiti Suzuki (Research Institute of Electrical communication, Togoku University, Japan)
  • Published : 1989.10.01

Abstract

This paper presents basic data on loudness level and loudness along with data obtained by the authors, and describes an application of the idea of masked loudness to perception of music in the presence of noise. It is shown that timbre or sound quality of music is well explained by masked loudness vs frequency characteristic.

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