Then, the test begins: you hear a beep in your left ear and you press the button. What could be more difficult to do than that? Whenever you hear a tone in the headphones in either one of your ears, please press the button. Then you sit and wait for a while until you calm down and your ears settle in to the silence… While that’s happening you read the instructions of the task with which you are presented: Imagine that you go into the quietest room that you’ve ever been in, and you are given a button to press and a pair of headphones to put on. We’ll begin with a thought experiment (although, for some of you, this may be an experiment that you have actually done). However, in this article, we’re going to look at one small aspect of the statement, and what we might be able to do to get around the problem.

There are lots of reasons for this, and the statement is actually far more wide-reaching than any of us would like to admit. Let’s start with some depressing news: You can’t trust your ears. #21 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers Part 1: Equal Loudness Contours

Loudness equalization good or bad