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Know Your Audio Analyzer Averages

By Nathan Lively

After you take several measurements and average them together, what do you expect to see? If these two measurements are averaged, what do you expect? Is zero the average of -6dB and 6dB, or something else? Here are four possible averages you may have guessed, depending on which audio analyzer you use. tl;dr Know what kind of averaging your audio analyzer uses.Collecting more data is more important than the way it is averaged. Here are demos from a selection of audio … [Read more...]

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