Effect of comparison interval on subjective evaluation test of loudness

Abstract

In this paper we investigated effects of the presentation time interval on a subjective evaluation test of loudness. We carried out paired comparison experiments of pure tones loudness with changing the time interval of the comparison. As the results, two characteristic effects were obtained. The difference limen of the loudness was almost proportional to the time interval in below 10 s and was almost the same value of 1.5 dB in above 10 s. On the other hand, the effect of the presentation order was smallest at the time interval of about 5 s.