Audio Library

Notes:

These *.wav files can be put to best effect using good earphones. A good set of near-field monitors in a low background noise environment will also function well.

Tracks 4 and 10 are suitable for Ease "EARS RT" users to convolve in room simulations.

Track 10 contains many rhyming words useful for testing intelligibility. Play this track through a PA system and listen at various locations in your room to check word comprehension.

Track 1
(690KB)

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A "dry" recording of nonsense poetry about "Gnu's in a Zoo".
Track 2
(1.40MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" at a stadium with mediocre PA system.
Track 3
 (1.45MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" at the same stadium with a bad PA system.
Track 4
(125KB)
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Twelve hand claps Monaural dry recording with no processing.
Track 5
 (750KB)
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The same sound in a recording studio with a flutter echo problem.
Track 6
(570KB)
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The same sound in the same studio after acoustic treatment has been applied.
Track 7
(1.80MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" in an empty Cathedral with poorly designed PA system.
Track 8
(1.60MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" in the same Cathedral using a better PA system.
Track 9
(1.65MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" in an indoor swimming pool with a regular PA system.
Track 10
(1.50MB)
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"Gnu's in a Zoo" in the same indoor swimming pool after acoustic treatment is applied and a properly designed PA system is installed.
Track 11
(1.40MB)
  
"Gnu's in a Zoo" at a showground with a poor PA system.
Track 12
(1.40MB)
  
"Gnu's in a Zoo" at a showground with a fair PA system.
Track 13
(4.0MB)
  
Feature length Monaural "Gnu's in a Zoo" unconvolved test message.