Modeling And Predicting Listeners’ Headphone Preference Ratings - Sean Olive (Harman)

Synopsis: A series of controlled listening tests have identified a preferred target response for around-ear (AE), on-ear (OE) and in-ear (IE) headphones that satisfy the majority (64%) of listeners. Two smaller segments of listeners prefer this target response with slightly more (15%) or less bass (21%). Two statistical models have been developed that predict listeners’ sound quality preference ratings of a headphone based on how much its measured magnitude response deviates from these target responses. My talk summarizes this research, and presents some new research related to how headphone measurements vary across different test fixtures including the B&K 5128. The goal is to be able to model and predict listeners’ preference ratings of a headphone using measurements from different test fixtures.

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