Comparing two methods to measure preferred listening levels of personal listening devices

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3733-3741

  Worthington, Darrin A ^a,c   Siegel, Jonathan H ^a   Wilber, Laura Ann ^a   Faber, Benjamin M ^b   Dunckley, Kathleen T ^a   Garstecki, Dean C ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Faber Acoustical LLC   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; LISTENING LEVELS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE; POTENTIAL RISKS; STANDARD MEASUREMENTS; SWITZERLAND;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; NOISE POLLUTION; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; STANDARDS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY CANAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHONE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONAL LISTENING DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDITY; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; EAR CANAL; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649120087     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3125798     Document Type: Article

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