No correlation between cost of earphones and frequency response
Of the many journals I subscribe to, one is the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. And of the articles that are the most well-read (at least so far in 2017) is “Enhancing monochromatic multipole emission by a subwavelength enclosure of degenerate Mie resonances” and “No correlation between headphone frequency response and retail price”. …
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The Occlusion Effect with Musicians’ Earplugs – part 1
A significant proportion of my clientele at the Musicians’ Clinics of Canada are for “second opinions”. Recently I had a referral where a trombone player was fit with ER-15 musicians’ earplugs but was complaining of the occlusion effect. The ear impressions were remade with a much longer earmold bore but the occlusion complaints remained. Indeed…
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