Toole's paper refers to the work of his close associate, Sean Olive, whose blog may be of interest to some:
http://seanolive.blogspot.se/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2
There is a paper from an Oxford-trained fellow, bravely attempting to set a series of acoustic standards for domestic listening rooms:
http://www.hedbackdesignedacoustics.com/files/QuickSiteImages/AMS_for_Stereo_List._Rms.pdf
My own 2 cents:
Audio (music) is an intimate blend of engineering/science and art/culture which makes it so unique and appealing among human endeavours, and also an everlasting source to endless discussions. Ultimately, it must be ruled by subjective preferences though: I can't recommend enough the fascinating book by Daniel Levitin, which is fast becoming a college reference textbook: "This is your brain on music"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Your_Brain_On_Music[url]
Finally, on the ligher side, I can't resist quoting a 60 year old anecdote about Harry Olson's acoustical work at RCA Labs in the 1950's:
"It may be remembered that many years ago Chinn, using 33 r.p.m. recordings for his experiments, claimed that listeners to orchestral music did not like high frequencies. Olson, who is very keen on subjective experiments, decided to carry out a fundamental experiment. He placed an orchestra behind a curtain across the corner of a large room, Behind the curtain was a screen consisting of hinged sections Which could be rotated as desired to attenuate high frequencies. He asked his subjects whether they preferred either of two conditions, one being with the attenuating screen and the other without. A marked preference was exhibited for the orchestra with its full high frequency range, thereby refuting the claims of Chinn.
Apparently some of the comments by the listeners to the orchestra were rather embarrassingly frank because, not knowing that a live orchestra was behind the screen, some of them indulged in criticism of the performance. Some of the subjects also went so far as to complain of wow." *
Should we lament the subjectivity of objective assessments, or rather the lack of objectivity of subjective assessments?
Anyway, God Fortsättning to all !
ARB
* It is paragraph 9.3 of Report 1956-27 from the BBC Engineering Division, archived under "R&D reports" on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1956_27.shtml
There are a few other gems in the archives...
av PappaBas » 2012-11-26 03:04 
Jag tycker dock artikeln är mycket mer kondenserad och sammanfattande.
