Scaling the Unpleasantness of Sounds According to the BTL Model: Ratio-Scale Representation and Psychoacoustical Analysis

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-107

  Ellermeier, Wolfgang ^a   Mader, Markus ^b   Daniel, Peter ^c  

^a Department of Acoustics ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Cortex Instruments GmbH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ATTENUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; HEADPHONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

PSYCHOACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS; SOUND CARDS; SOUND QUALITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 1242285484     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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