Yanni vs Laurel Have you taken the test?

sleepysurf said:
I heard "Yanni" on TV, but "Laurel" here (on a Chromebook). Would have been a lot more interesting if all audiophiles heard one, and non-audiophiles the other!
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And no doubt there will be those audiophiles who think they have superior ears because they always hear the 'right' thing. Human pride can be such a funny affair.
 
nicoff said:
Interesting explanation in that article. Those who can hear the high frequencies buency etter, hear “Yanny”. Those who can hear the lower frequencies better, hear Laurel. So... younger folks or those folks with better hearing will hear Yanny?!
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If I understood correctly, it is also how the individual brain interprets the frequency spectrum. People who hear Laurel may have just fine hearing.

The other link talked about manipulation of what you hear by bass content. This may have something to do with that.
 
nicoff said:
Interesting explanation in that article. Those who can hear the high frequencies better, hear “Yanny”. Those who can hear the lower frequencies better, hear Laurel. So... younger folks or those folks with better hearing will hear Yanny?!
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There are later articles in the thread which falsify this statement.

The original computer voice actually says Laurel, everything else is some kind of distortions caused by the transport/ output system.


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nicoff said:
Taking this further... can this be used as an explanation why the same stereo system can sound so different to different folks? Or put another way, you hear what you “think” you hear which may be different than what is actually there. [emoji848][emoji848]
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Al M. said:
If I understood correctly, it is also how the individual brain interprets the frequency spectrum. People who hear Laurel may have just fine hearing.

The other link talked about manipulation of what you hear by bass content. This may have something to do with that.
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My son played this for my wife and I yesterday on his iPhone. I clearly heard Laurel as did my son. He is 22. My wife who has compromised hearing in one ear heard Yanny. I played the same thing this morning on my iPad. It sounded the same to me in all respects but my wife heard laurel this time. It is clearly laurel as it comes from a reading of that word on vocabulary.com. I wonder if whether someone asks you which word you hear and the order they put the choice to you effects what you hear or think you hear. Fascinating stuff.
 
nicoff said:
Taking this further... can this be used as an explanation why the same stereo system can sound so different to different folks? Or put another way, you hear what you “think” you hear which may be different than what is actually there. [emoji848][emoji848]
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Taking this even further, I recently was once more reminded of a fact that I had known for a while now: in some respects my audiophile friends and myself hear our reference, unamplified live music, differently.
 
JWhip said:
My son played this for my wife and I yesterday on his iPhone. I clearly heard Laurel as did my son. He is 22. My wife who has compromised hearing in one ear heard Yanny. I played the same thing this morning on my iPad. It sounded the same to me in all respects but my wife heard laurel this time. It is clearly laurel as it comes from a reading of that word on vocabulary.com. I wonder if whether someone asks you which word you hear and the order they put the choice to you effects what you hear or think you hear. Fascinating stuff.
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I think you got the point wrong. According to the analysis in this article:

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/16/17358774/yanny-laurel-explained

(see video with frequency cut-outs by Dylan Bennett halfway through the link)

it is the people with lesser high frequency hearing who may hear Laurel, whereas those with better hearing are more likely to hear Yanny. In my post that you responded to I offered an alternative explanation, whereby people hearing Laurel may have just fine hearing, but something else is going on.
 
I didn’t miss the point of the article at all. My son is 22 and hears laurel. My wife has a congenital defect in one ear and heard Yanny. My last ear test I hear 16khz At nearly 60 and always hear Laurel. I find the posted article to be simply wrong. I agree with you. There is something else going on here which I find to be of interest. Perhaps if I ask a subject if there hear Yanni or laurel, they here what we say first, hence they will hear Yanni. Perhaps that is the way some people are wired, others not. It is this possibility that I find to be of interest. When I was playing the test this morning my wife clearly heard laurel and I didn’t tell her I would play it, hence no possible preconditioning. Or perhaps it is an iPhone vs. Ipad thing. Human perception is a fascinating subject. I dealt with it as a trial lawyer.
 
kzhtoo said:
https://youtu.be/TYR8tsfnQsQ
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Very cool, thanks. Particularly the second half (after the puking unicorn) was quite revelatory as he plays around with the graphic equallizer a bit more. Also of note is that the shifts from Laurel to Yanni take place in the bands below the 16 kHz one -- so it's not necessarily a thing of having good high-frequency hearing or not.
 
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