Systems and methods are provided for evaluating hearing health. An audio sample is first transformed into the frequency domain. A first and second hearing profile, representing a healthy hearing standard and a user's hearing profile, are then applied to the audio sample. Two values representing the perceptually relevant information for the audio signal are then generated and compared to create a hearing health index value. The user's hearing profile may additionally be applied to differently processed audio samples to evaluate the amount of perceptual rescue offered by various digital signal processing algorithms.
