Sound quality evaluation of the booming sensation for passenger cars

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 309-320

  Shin, Sung Hwan ^a   Ih, Jeong Guon ^a   Hashimoto, Takeo ^b   Hatano, Shigeko ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Booming noise; Booming strength; Sound quality; Vehicle interior noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILES; CORRELATION METHODS; PASSENGER CARS;

ACOUSTIC COMFORTS; BOOMING NOISE; BOOMING NOISES; BOOMING STRENGTH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; EMPIRICAL DATUMS; FIRING FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; INTERIOR NOISES; LISTENING TESTS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATIONS; NARROW BANDS; PITCH EXTRACTIONS; PITCH MODELS; SOUND INTENSITIES; SOUND QUALITIES; SOUND QUALITY; SOUND QUALITY EVALUATIONS; VEHICLE INTERIOR NOISE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 55949108767     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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