Response to "Comments on 'A field survey on the annoyance caused by soundsfrom large firearms and road traffic' " [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 1594-1597 (1999)]

Percentages of "highly annoyed" respondents were determined by utilizing th e 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-tra ffic sounds was not different from that obtained in many other field survey s, and (2) the overall adjustment to the C-weighted day-night level of the artillery sounds was equal to the previously derived adjustment. The estima ted optimal parameter values in Schemer's new rating procedure for high-ene rgy impulsive sounds were hardly different from the previously obtained val ues. It was shown that analyses in which (inaudible or faintly audible) sin gle events with relatively low CSEL values were excluded yielded essentiall y the same results as reported earlier. (C) 1999 Acoustical Society of Amer ica. [S0001-4966(99)03609-7].