AS IEC 60645.1-2002

Specifies general requirements for audiometers and particular requirements for pure-tone audiometers designed for use in determining hearing threshold levels, in comparison with standard reference threshold levels by means of psychoacoustic test methods. This Standard is a modified adoption of, and has been reproduced from, IEC 60645-1:2001.

This part of IEC 60645 specifies general requirements for audiometers and particularrequirements for pure-tone audiometers designed for use in determining hearing thresholdlevels, in comparison with standard reference threshold levels by means of psychoacoustictest methods.The object of this International Standard is to ensure:a) that tests of hearing, particularly threshold, in the frequency range 125 Hz to 8 000 Hz ona given human ear performed with different audiometers which comply with this International Standard using methods described in ISO 8253-1 and ISO 6189 shall give substantially the same results;b) that the results obtained represent a valid comparison between the hearing of the eartested and the reference threshold of hearing;c) that audiometers are classified according to the range of test signals they generate,according to the mode of operation or according to the complexity of the range of auditoryfunctions they test.

First published as part of AS Z43.1-1971 and AS 1591.6-1977.
AS Z43.1-1971 and AS 1591.6-1977 revised, amalgamated and redesignated in part as AS 2586-1983.
AS 2586-1983 revised and redesignated in a part as AS IEC 60645.1-2002.