Response to “Comments on ‘A field survey on the annoyance caused by sounds from large firearms and road traffic’ ” [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 1594–1597 (1999)]

Percentages of "highly annoyed" respondents were determined by utilizing the more commonly adopted cutoff point at 72% instead of at 63% of the rating scales. The results showed that (1) the community response to the road-traffic sounds was not different from that obtained in many other field surveys, and (2) the overall adjustment to the C-weighted day-night level of the artillery sounds was equal to the previously derived adjustment. The estimated optimal parameter values in Schemer's new rating procedure for high-energy impulsive sounds were hardly different from the previously obtained values. It was shown that analyses in which (inaudible or faintly audible) single events with relatively low CSEL values were excluded yielded essentially the same results as reported earlier. (C) 1999 Acoustical Society of America. [S0001-4966(99)03609-7].