Originally Posted by
Beave
Dr. Toole's books discuss audibility of resonances or at least refer to papers published by others that discuss the audibility of resonances. It's probably best if you look into that instead of what I'd say.
I haven't read the book or the original source, but I've read a summary from Dr. Toole - and my personal experience doesn't quite match what the published papers say.
Basically, they concluded that broad, low Q resonances are audible even when they're low in amplitude, but narrow, high Q resonances need to have high amplitude in order to be audible.
My beef with that conclusion is that resonance audibility is also program dependent. I used to own a set of speakers with a narrow, high Q resonance (from an insufficiently lowpass filtered metal woofer). The resonance wasn't audible at all on a lot of material. But when certain material energized it, it was very audible.