To perform objective evaluation without damaging a specimen and detect the defect of the specimen regardless of the size and place of the defect of the specimen (cracks and inside cracks of a material board or the like).
The device is provided with an inspection jig 10 having a specimen attaching part 11 attaching the specimen 1, a vibrator 22 exciting the specimen 1, and a sound collecting device 20 for collecting vibration sound when the specimen 1 is excited by the vibrator 22; and a sound detection machine 30 frequency-analyzing the vibration sound collected by the sound collecting device 20. The defect of the specimen is judged by extracting and analyzing an exciting sound in time series when the specimen 1 is excited by the vibrator 22.