HIMSA, with a great deal of leading industry involvement, has produced the Noah Sound Equipment Guideline to help hearing care professionals more effectively select, install, calibrate and use sound equipment in daily practice. The guideline includes information to help you with: 

  • Selecting a room with satisfactory acoustic characteristics
  • Choosing a Sound Delivery System (the speakers, sound card and software used to play back and control these sounds)
  • Calibrating to ensure that the performance of the Sound Delivery System is adequate

Use the links in the following table to download the Noah Sound Equipment Guideline and Manual Calibration guideline, as well as the appropriate calibration files for your sound equipment installation.

DocumentDescriptionDownload
Noah Sound Equipment Guideline
(918 Kb)
This document is designed to guide hearing care professionals in the selection and set-up of equipment used to deliver sound examples in their offices.Link
Manual Calibration Guide (1.1Mb)This document will guide hearing care professionals through the manual calibration process as described in the NOAH Sound Equipment Guideline.Link
Sound files
(17 Mb)
For calibrating front-back two channel speaker configuration – Level 1
Link
Sound files
(56 Mb)
For calibrating front-back two channel speaker configuration – Level 2Link
Sound files
(71 Mb)
For calibrating left-right two channel speaker configuration – level 1Link
Sound files (251 Mb)For calibrating left-right two channel speaker configuration – level 2Link
Sound files
(49.5 Mb)
For calibrating front-back-left-right four channel speaker configuration – level 1Link
Sound files
(173 Mb)
For calibrating front-back-left-right four channel speaker configuration – level 2
Link
Sound files
(71 Mb)
For calibrating W-2 speaker configuration – level 1
Link
Sound files
(251 Mb)
For calibrating W-2 speaker configuration – level 2Link
Sound files
(49.5 Mb)
For calibrating equipment 5.1 channel setup – level 1Link
Sound files
(173 Mb)
For calibrating equipment 5.1 channel setup – level 2Link
Sound files
(71 Mb)
For calibrating equipment 7.1 channel setup – level 1Link
Sound files
(251 Mb)
For calibrating equipment 7.1 channel setup – level 2Link