Sound Quality and Subjective Hearing Perception

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第 25 卷第 6 期 声 学 技 术 Vol.25, No.6

2006 年 12 月
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Guest Editor ial

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Sound quality and subjective hear ing per ception


Increasing attention is being paid on sound dealing with unpleasantness induced by low-fre
quality and subjective hearing perception properties quency noise in environment. These would be of
of sound/noise signals. While lots of efforts had better understanding of low-frequency content for
been done and is being continually done on de- product and environmental noise.
scribing sound character physically, subjective sen- Subjective hearing perception character is also
sation found to be more suitable way reflecting applied to evaluation quality of audio products ,
sound character in human related products and en- such as presented in the fifth paper by Xie,
vironments , demonstrating that human-being is the Zhang Linshan, Guan and Zhang Chengyun , where
central object. A wide range of work is being car- subjective performance of filters for virtual sound
ried out , including subjective evaluation methodo- reproducing with loudspeakers is investigated. Using
logy, general sound quality metrics and metrics for subjective perception to assess quality of loud-
special type of noise or products, acoustic comfort speakers and to build relationship between subjec-
and soundscape in living and work spaces and app- tive quantities and distortion factors is studied by
lications in product sound design and product Zheng and Meng as in the sixth paper.
quality evaluation. The aim of this special issue is Besides research work in subjective sound pro-
to reflect the state-of-the-art in sound quality study perties and applications , continuing work on meth-
of Chinese researchers. odology in psychology is being carried out for a
Comfortable sound environment is the optimal more reliable, effective and easy subjective test pro-
endeavor for architecture and environmental acous cedure. The seventh paper , by Mao and Zhang,
tic workers. While physical quantities such as sound discusses the potential of semantic differential me-
level and reverberation time are used as rating in- thod by applying an anchor stimulus in the test ,
dices , people in these spaces has far more expec- and in the eighth paper by Jiao, Tian etc points out
tations. The first paper in the issue, by Kang, pre- the importance of listener clustering in subjective
sents a case-study of eight types of non-acoustic test. These would be feasible in revealing subjec-
buildings, demonstrates the importance of sound q- tive perceptual character of sound.
uality and key factors rather than objective indices Although it is impossible to cover all aspects
that have special impact on acoustic comfort of of sound quality and subjective hearing perception
such spaces. Zhang and Kang reveals in the sec- related works in this special issue , I hope the ten
ond paper of this issue , there are four key factors papers selected represent recent development and
that determine the acoustic comfort in urban open current trend in this field , especially for Chinese
spaces , and people may feel comfortable in loud- researchers. We thank Technical Acoustics for pro-
ness environment when it is not dominated by un- viding this opportunity, and all the contributors and
pleasant noise. reviewers for their hard work.
Low-frequency noise induced annoyance has
MAO Dongxing 毛东兴
been closely followed in recent years. The third pa-
Institute of Acoustics
per in this issue , by Mao, Wang and Jiang, in- Tongji University, Shanghai, China
troduces a low-frequency model for car interior 同济大学声学研究所
noise quality, and the fourth paper by Yan and Chen E-mail address: dxmao@mail.tongji.edu.cn

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