Audibility of Tones in Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth Wide Inharmonic Tone Complexes

• Authors: P. Kleczkowski , M. Pluta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The threshold of discrimination of a pure tone probe in the background of a one ERB wide masker composed of inharmonic partials was investigated. The experiment was participated with a large group of 35 listeners. Very consistent results were observed across two independent variables: the number of partials (from three to five) and their amplitudes being equal or unequal. For all but one of the conditions, the threshold obtained was between -4 and -5 dB. The threshold slightly decreased with increasing number of partials and was slightly lower when their amplitudes were even.

Keywords

EN

44.66.Fe; 44.66.Hg; 44.66.Dc

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 123
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 984-987

Dates

published

2013-06

Contributors

author

P. Kleczkowski

• AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

author

M. Pluta

• AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.123.984