Assessing room acoustic listening expertise.
Markus von Berg1, Jochen Steffens1, Stefan Weinzierl2
1Institute of Sound and Vibration Engineering (ISAVE), Hochschule Düsseldorf, Münsterstaße 156, Düsseldorf, 40476, Germany.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|October 31, 2021
Summary
Musicians
Area of Science:
- Acoustics
- Psychoacoustics
- Music Perception
Background:
- Musicians are often assumed to be expert listeners for room acoustics tests.
- Traditional tests may not align with musically relevant acoustic parameters like pitch or timbre.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate musicians' expertise in room acoustics perception and understanding.
- To assess perceptual sensitivity and cognitive abilities related to reverberation and spectral envelope identification.
Main Methods:
- A listening test battery was developed to measure perceptual and cognitive skills.
- Participant performance was correlated with musical sophistication, self-reported experience, and academic acoustics knowledge.
Main Results:
- Sensory and cognitive abilities significantly correlated with musical training, analytic listening, recording experience, and acoustics knowledge.
- General music interest did not show significant correlations.
Conclusions:
- Musical training and experience are significant predictors but explain limited variance in room acoustic listening expertise.
- Traditional criteria for selecting expert listeners in room acoustics are weak predictors of actual performance.
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