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Industry Circles => Bryston Limited => Topic started by: James Tanner on 7 Feb 2013, 12:46 am

Title: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: James Tanner on 7 Feb 2013, 12:46 am

Researchers have found that human hearing perception of BOTH frequency and timing exceed the limits originally bounded by mathematical models. This could go a long way to understanding the differences in our perception of analogue and digital media. It could also explain the audible differences between digital compression algorithms as they have always focused on preserving as much of the spectral content as possible, NOT the temporal.

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-human-fourier-uncertainty-principle.html

Title: Re: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: Napalm on 7 Feb 2013, 01:46 am

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Title: Re: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: redbook on 7 Feb 2013, 04:53 pm

  Thanks James , very, very interesting :thumb:

Title: Re: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: Marius on 7 Feb 2013, 09:56 pm

Quote from: redbook on  7 Feb 2013, 04:53 pm

  Thanks James , very, very interesting :thumb:

Indeed it is. Quite amusing comments also. As one of those musicians 'blessed' with a set of very accurate and discerning ears, I can feel for those that state it is not always a pleasure to be able to discriminate perfectly on pitch and timing.....

Cheers,
Marius

Title: Re: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: Napalm on 4 Mar 2013, 12:53 pm

The "Casablanca" example is an eye opener.

Additional interesting reading about human hearing and importance of phase:

http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/PDFs/acoustical_reality.pdf (http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/PDFs/acoustical_reality.pdf)

Title: Re: Accuracy of Human Hearing
Post by: werd on 4 Mar 2013, 05:26 pm

Quote from: Napalm on  4 Mar 2013, 12:53 pm

The "Casablanca" example is an eye opener.

Additional interesting reading about human hearing and importance of phase:

http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/PDFs/acoustical_reality.pdf (http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/PDFs/acoustical_reality.pdf)

I would like to try these " hidden leopard jumping out at a ya" kindaspeakers . Until you see the price and the y make you wanna go run and  climb a tree.     :lol: