Listener fatigue

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Listener fatigue occurs when the ear tunes out unwanted noises and focuses on the wanted ones. When listening to music for example, the speakers may give off an unwanted hissing noise that the person has to focus out, causing "Listener Fatigue".

This is an extension of the quantifiable psychological perception of sound, adding time-variance effects.

[edit] External links

• Explanation of time and frequency variation of loudness, with graphs and loudness spectrograms.
• Discussion of noise fatigue, relevant to commercial radio