Coupling of earphones to human ears and to standard coupler

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2096-2107

  Ćirić, Dejan G ^a,b   Hammershøi, Dorte ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDIOMETERS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEARING AIDS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AUDIOMETRIC EARPHONES; AUDIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT; EARPHONE COUPLINGS; STANDARDIZED COUPLERS;

EARPHONES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEVICE; EAR; EARPHONE COUPLING; FEMALE; HEAD PHONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROPHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33749551165     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2258929     Document Type: Article

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