No correlation between headphone frequency response and retail price.

This study quantifies variability of measured headphone response patterns and aims to uncover any correlations between headphone type, retail price, and frequency response. For this purpose, the mean, variance, and covariance of the frequency magnitude responses were analyzed and correlated with headphone type and retail value. The results indicate that neither the measured response nor an attempt to objectively quantify perceived quality is related to price.

Comparison of across-frequency integration strategies in a binaural detection model.

Breebaart et al. [J. Acoust.

Effect of perceptually irrelevant variance in head-related transfer functions on principal component analysis.

The significant amount of variance in head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) resulting from source location and subject dependencies have led researchers to use principal components analysis (PCA) to approximate HRTFs with a small set of basis functions. PCA minimizes a mean-square error, and consequently may spend modeling effort on perceptually irrelevant properties. To investigate the extent of this effect, PCA performance was studied before and after removal of perceptually irrelevant variance.

Sound segregation based on temporal envelope structure and binaural cues.

The ability to segregate two spectrally and temporally overlapping signals based on differences in temporal envelope structure and binaural cues was investigated. Signals were a harmonic tone complex (HTC) with 20 Hz fundamental frequency and a bandpass noise (BPN). Both signals had interaural differences of the same absolute value, but with opposite signs to establish lateralization to different sides of the medial plane, such that their combination yielded two different spatial configurations.