Comments on “A method for forward and inverse solutions of a three-dimensional model of the cochlea” [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103 , 3725 (1998)]

This comment specifies reservations about the generalizability of de Boer’s letter [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 3725 (1998)] in which he claims that the real (nonlinear) cochlea can be analyzed using a straightforward extension of a common linear analysis. Two points are elaborated. Basically they regard physical aspects of boundary conditions at the cochlear partition and at the helicotrema.