What do you hear? Laurel vs Yanny

I still hear Yanny through the computer speakers.

I sort of recall being able to hear Laurel through headphones or different speakers a couple of years ago.
Perhaps whatever it was had a more recessed high frequency response.
 
Tritone Paradox.

The tritone paradox is an auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone, or half octave, is heard as ascending by some people and as descending by others.

Different populations tend to favor one of a limited set of different spots around the chromatic circle as central to the set of "higher" tones. Roger Shepard in 1963 had argued that such tone pairs would be heard ambiguously as either ascending or descending.

However, psychology of music researcher Diana Deutsch in 1986 discovered that when the judgments of individual listeners were considered separately, their judgments depended on the positions of the tones along the chromatic circle.

For example, one listener would hear the tone pair C–F♯ as ascending and the tone pair G–C♯ as descending. Yet another listener would hear the tone pair C–F♯ as descending and the tone pair G–C♯ as ascending. Furthermore, the way these tone pairs were perceived varied depending on the listener's language or dialect.




Here is the Tritone Paradox. Visualizing the Tritone Paradox - Psychology Demo - YouTube
 
Look into "otoacoustic emissions" Weird.. Evidently in some people the ears can actually produce sounds of their own.
 
An otoacoustic emission (OAE) is a sound that is generated from within the inner ear. Having been predicted by Austrian astrophysicist Thomas Gold in 1948, its existence was first demonstrated experimentally by British physicist David Kemp in 1978,[1] and otoacoustic emissions have since been shown to arise through a number of different cellular and mechanical causes within the inner ear.[2][3] Studies have shown that OAEs disappear after the inner ear has been damaged, so OAEs are often used in the laboratory and the clinic as a measure of inner ear health.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of otoacoustic emissions: spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs), which occur without external stimulation, and evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs), which require an evoking stimulus.

Otoacoustic emission - Wikipedia
 
I clearly heard Yanny once and then Laurel each and every time after. Can't go back to Yanny... It was very distinct and clear as day. If I had to swear on the Bible, I would have said Yanny after the first time... Except it is Laurel now. Just goes to show... But nearly half the people hear one over the other and it seems to be age dependent too. So much for the ears as an instrument of precision? :D
 
The McGurk effect validates what I have been thinking for a while.
You watch a YouTube music video and even though the audio might be compressed and low resolution, you don’t feel that way.
That’s because the video seems to have a higher hierarchy in our brain and shapes what we hear. And that is what I understand that the McGurk effect proves.
Take a lower resolution audio with good video resolution and you will enjoy it more than just audio alone.
Real life is audio and video together. Trying to get a full ‘picture’ out of just audio alone is not attainable.
 
nicoff said:
The McGurk effect validates what I have been thinking for a while.
You watch a YouTube music video and even though the audio might be compressed and low resolution, you don’t feel that way.
That’s because the video seems to have a higher hierarchy in our brain and shapes what we hear. And that is what I understand that the McGurk effect proves.
Take a lower resolution audio with good video resolution and you will enjoy it more than just audio alone.
Real life is audio and video together. Trying to get a full ‘picture’ out of just audio alone is not attainable.
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I would say that I truly enjoyed Bluray concerts in the theater room. The combination of a high end 7.1 and a big screen with a projector was truly a treat for all the senses, including the chest and gut punching bass from the music. That's the one aspect I miss, the spectacular concerts.
 
My favorite line from the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie WarGames is ...

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

:)
 
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