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Causes of Nonlinear Compression Driver Distortions and Their Audibility

The sensitivity of human hearing with respect to nonlinear distortions has to be investigated in order to focus on the development of loudspeakers, particularly on the sources of the most audible distortions. By means of digital signal processing, a filter system has been designed to show the inverse transfer characteristic of a horn loaded compression driver loudspeaker. This filter system was used for producing defined distortions to determine the thresholds of hearing for three dominant nonlinear distortion causes.

Author: Schmitt, Regina
Affiliation: Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Technical Acoustics, Dresden, Germany
AES Convention:99 (October 1995) Paper Number:4131 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Perception and Subjective Evaluation

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