New Editions of IEC 61260 Electroacoustics Standards

The International Electrotechnical Commission has released the first editions of parts 2 and 3 for IEC 612060, the standard for Electroacoustics – Octave-band and fractional-octave-band filters. Part 2, for Pattern-evaluation tests and Part 3, for Periodic tests can both be purchased on the IEC webstore.

Descriptions*

• IEC 61260-2:2016 provides details of the tests necessary to verify conformance to all mandatory specifications given in IEC 61260-1:2014 for octave-band and fractional-octave-band filters. This first edition of IEC 61260-2 (together with IEC 61260-1:2014 and IEC 61260-3:2016), cancels and replaces the first edition of IEC 61260 published in 1995 and its Amendment 1 published in 2001. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
• IEC 61260-3:2016 describes procedures for periodic testing of octave-band and fractional-octave-band filters that were designed to conform to the class 1 or class 2 specifications given in IEC 61260-1:2014. The aim of this standard is to ensure that periodic testing is performed in a consistent manner by all laboratories. This first edition of IEC 61260-3 (together with IEC 61260-1:2014 and IEC 61260-2:2016), cancels and replaces the first edition of IEC 61260 published in 1995 and its Amendment 1 published in 2001. This edition constitutes a technical revision.

*Descriptions from the IEC website.