Sound System Engineering 4e, 4th Edition

Chapter 4

Psychoacoustics

by Don Davis

4.1  Motivations

4.2  Sound Reproduction

4.3  Is it Better to be Born Blind or Deaf ?

4.4  Recording Sound at the Eardrum

4.5  Psychoacoustics via a Metaphysical Foundation

4.6  Barks, Bands, Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidths (ERBs), Phons and Sones

Phon Level

Sones

 

4.1 Motivations

As I mentioned elsewhere in the book, my original motivation for pursuing audio studies came from extensive listening to classical music. This listening begun, in a serious way in 1949, and by 1952, I was engaged in the custom construction of what was then called high fidelity systems. Parallel to these activities I had the opportunity to hear many large orchestras and many fine artists due to the fact that we lived in a University ...