PD 6545:2005

This standard PD 6545:2005 Intended use of human head and ear simulators-guide is classified in these ICS categories:

• 13.140 Noise with respect to human beings

This Published Document describes and gives guidance on the range of currently available standardized head and torso simulators, and ear simulators in the fields of audiology, telecommunications, audio engineering and hearing protection.

This guide describes ear simulators of the following types and their applications:

1. — acoustic couplers;
2. — artificial ears/occluded ear simulators;
3. — head and torso simulators;
4. — mechanical couplers for the calibration of bone vibrators.

The guide also describes the range of earphones available and how they are to be measured on appropriate ear simulators.

The guide does not describe the effects on the measurement of performance due to using different forms of test stimuli. The guide does not indicate the performance of a transducer (earphone or bone vibrator) on any individual person or the perceptual qualities of a listener using a transducer.

NOTE All documents referred to in the text are listed in the Bibliography