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Frequently Asked Questions

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No limitation applying for personal use. Downloading our files to your hard drive, editing them, compiling your own audio test CDs are all fine with us.
Redistributing our files might be OK, as long as you do not edit their contents, and you do give credit to our website.
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To ensure the widest compatibility across browsers and operating systems, the sound which plays back when hovering the mouse across icons, has been mp3 encoded. If your (corporate) firewall has been set up to block mp3 streaming, you won't hear anything online. As a work-around, download the uncompressed files instead and play them back straight from your hard drive.

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Make this site sound better in English. We use English as a second language. Please help us improving the quality of these pages by proofreading a few lines, a paragraph or two, or even better, a full page. We'll make sure you get the proper credits. Pages to be reviewed in priority can be found here. Please send your contribution to . You can also increase our popularity by creating a link from your website to ours. Credits : Mike Happe (voice over), Christian Cadelli (acoustic guitar sample), Bryan Lord, Tony Mitchell and Will Orzo (proof reading). Thank you!

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Earplug Reviews

As an audio enthusiast, there is one truly invaluable instrument that you need to care about: your hearing! The continuous exposure to loud sounds over an extended period of time will result in temporary hearing loss, possibly accompanied by tinnitus, a ringing, buzzing, or roaring in the ears or head. Both may become permanent over successive exposures. If you frequently attend loud concerts, you should consider hearing protection. Perfect hearing extends to frequencies up to 20kHz. Check your audible range here.

This section reviews various earplugs with different situations in mind, from sleeping in silence to protecting your hearing during loud concerts. Each review comes with a simulation that lets you hear the attenuation provided by a given earplug in a particular sonic environment: your partner's snoring, the party next door, a motorcycle engine, the constant rumble of a plane, the painful noise of a circular saw or hammer drill, the impact noise of a gun shot and - of most interest for our "audiocheck" readers - the sound of a club or a loud rock concert!

Type		Earplug	Brand	Isolation	Hi-Fi	Comfort	Ease	Reuse	Price
Wax		Boules Quies	Quies	•••	••	••	•	•	•
Foam		E.A.R Classic	Aearo	•••	•	••	•••	•	•
Foam		Safe Sound	Mack's	•••	•	•••	•••	•	•
Foam		Roll's Up Wallet	Mack's	•	•	•	•	•	•
Silicon	♫	High Fidelity	Mack's	•	••	•••	•••	•••	••
Silicon	♫	MusicSafe	Alpine	•	••	•••	•••	•••	••
Tissue	♫	Toilet Paper	varied!	•	••	•	•	-	-

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Test Tones

A collection of various test tones. Use these sound files to benchmark your audio Equipment and loudspeakers or your listening environment and room Acoustics .

Noises

• Pink Noise  
• White Noise  
• Brown Noise

Sine Tones

• Swept Sine (20-20.000Hz)  
• Swept Sine (20-200Hz)  
• Sine Bursts
• Brown Note

Dynamic Tests

• Dynamic Test

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Blind Listening Tests

A "blind test" is a method of testing in which the people being experimented on have no idea about what they're getting. This test method prevents results from being influenced by any a priori information. In the field of Audio, blind tests truly highlight what a listener is able to hear. Take up the challenge with the following tests:

• Find the smallest difference in sound level you can spot. 
   The Level Series:  6dB  3dB  1dB  0.5dB  0.2dB  0.1dB 
• Find the smallest difference in pitch (frequency) you can hear. 
   The Pitch Series:  50c  20c  10c  5c  2c  1c 
• Find the highest dynamic range offered by your listening environment. 
   The Dynamic Range Series:  36dB  42dB  48dB  54dB  60dB  66dB  72dB  78dB 
• Do you have the absolute hearing ability?
   The Perfect Pitch Blind Test:  C Scale  Chromatic 
• Are your ears sensitive to Absolute Phase? 
   The Absolute Polarity Blind Test:  Here 

The next files have been specifically designed for sound and studio engineers:

• Learn to discriminate frequencies by ear.
   The Peak Series: 10 bands  14 bands
   The Dip Series: 10 bands  14 bands

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Audio Tests

Use these sound files to intuitively benchmark your audio Equipment and loudspeakers , your listening environment and room Acoustics or your Hearing without any other device required.

Frequency Response Tests

• Loudspeakers Low Frequency Response (10Hz-200Hz)
• Hearing High Frequency Extension (22kHz-12kHz)    
• Mosquito Tone Audibility Test (17.4kHz)
• Sound Card Aliasing Test

Dynamic Range Test

• 16-bit Dynamic Test

Stereo Imaging Tests

• Left/Right Stereo Test
• Loudspeakers Polarity Test
• LEDR Imaging Test   

Others

• The Shepard Tone (Audio Illusion)

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