Contents -- Preface -- BOOK 1 Critical Listening -- Introduction to Critical Listening -- "Golden" Ears -- Training in Critical Listening -- Technical Support -- Lesson 1 Estimating the Frequency of Sound: Pure tones and random noise -- Lesson 2 Estimation of Sound Level Changes: Tones, speech, and music -- Lesson 3 Estimating Frequency Band Limitations: Music, male and female voices -- Lesson 4 Frequency Response Irregularities: Their effect on music and speech -- Lesson 5 Judgment of Sound Quality: Simple and complex sounds -- Lesson 6 Detecting Distortion: What it is and how it sounds -- Lesson 7 Reverberation Effects: On speech and music -- Lesson 8 Signal Versus Noise: Their interrelationship -- Lesson 9 Voice Colorations: How they sound and what causes them -- Lesson 10 Listening With Discernment: A review -- BOOK 2 Auditory Perception -- Introduction to the Structure and Function of the Human Hearing System -- Anatomy of the Ear -- The Function of the Outer Ear -- Localization Cues From the Outer Ear -- The Function of the Middle Ear -- The Function of the Inner Ear -- Protect Your Hearing! -- Use of Loudspeakers and Headphones -- Unit 1 Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre: The subjective correlates of sound level, frequency, and spectrum -- Unit 2 How One Sound Masks Another: A study of critical bands -- Unit 3 How the Ear Analyzes Sound: Auditory filters at work -- Unit 4 Non-Linearities in the Auditory System: Distortions generated in the ear -- Unit 5 The Perception of Delayed Sounds: How we hear echoes and reflections -- Unit 6 Why Some Sounds Are More Pleasant Than Others: Consonance, dissonance, and the critical band -- Unit 7 How We Locate Sounds: The head, the pinna, and an amazing computer -- Unit 8 True Binaural Listening: The dummy head in binaural recording -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P.

R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- CD Track List.