200e

Christ, take octaves out of the way and just think about Hertz.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Chris Muir <cbm@well.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Buckler wrote:
> > I came up with a third by dividing 21,000 by 3.
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> This is a fairly bogus method, IMO. Human hearing perception is not
> linear. The highest octave of human hearing is from roughly 10,000 Hz
> to roughly 20,000 Hz. This is certainly not half the range of human
> hearing.
>
> Perceptual units are a much more useful basis for discussion of this
> stuff.
>
> -C
>
> Chris Muir
> cbm@well.com <cbm%40well.com>
> http://www.xfade.com
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