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- From: mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
- Subject: Human hearing range (was Re: (none))
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.070030.4306@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:00:30 GMT
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- In article <2240195@overmind.citadel> only_bbs!JOHN_LOCKARD@overmind.mind.org writes:
- >
- > > 24 kHz is well beyond the average human being's hearing range.
- >
- > Not true. Individual tones cannot be detected above 20K, but people
- > can detect sounds above 20K as 'nuances' in music and can tell when
- > these frequencies are absent. So sampling needs to be 100Khz or higher.
- > I forget which British audio lab did the report on that.
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- Are you saying that "nuances" up to 50kHz are perceptible? Please
- back up this claim. Perhaps someone else can remember which lab
- did the experiment?
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