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Article: Improving sound quality with high-resolution hearing instruments.(tech tOPIC)
- Article from:
- The Hearing Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Sound quality has been revealed to be the second-most important factor related to customer satisfaction improvement, as well as the second-most desired improvement sought by hearing instrument wearers. (1) Clearly, advances in this area would contribute greatly to wearer satisfaction with hearing instruments.
But what exactly is meant by sound quality? One aspect of sound quality is that which allows the ear to distinguish between sounds having the same pitch and loudness, such as the difference between the same musical note played on a piano versus a guitar. Also known as timbre, this is mainly determined by the harmonic content and dynamic features of the ...