Evaluating the maximum playback sound levels from portable digital audio players

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4227-4237

  Keith, Stephen E ^a   Michaud, David S ^a   Chiu, Vincent ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EARPHONES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; HEADPHONES; MEASUREMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); DIGITAL AUDIO; EUROPEAN STANDARDS; FIELD TEST METHODS; FREE FIELDS; MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NOISE LEVELS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SOUND LEVEL METERS; SOUND LEVELS; YOUNG PEOPLE;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; DEVICE; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROPHONE; MUSIC; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCER;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CANADA; COCHLEAR MICROPHONIC POTENTIALS; HEARING; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MUSIC; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 44949100301     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2904465     Document Type: Article

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