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Re: [200e] Re: 261e or 259e capable of higher frequencies?

2008-09-29 by Damon Menne

i meant to comment on this but got lost in thinking about my selfish playing about!  ;-]

this is dead on and i agree 100%  
 
On Monday, September 29, 2008, at 01:21AM, "kkonkkrete" <kkonkkrete@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Talking in Hz doesn't make sense because sensory JND's vary as a
>function of the frequency.  That's not a musical claim, it's just a
>statement about the hair cells and basilar membrane in your cochlea. 
>So although +/-1 Hz is way above your frequency discrimination
>threshold at 50 Hz, it is way below your frequency discrimination
>threshold at 5000 Hz.  Discussions of the range of human hearing
>should be conducted in physiological (not physical) units.  So in my
>opinion, I don't think there is any meaningful sense in which 7kHz -
>20kHz is 1/3 of the range of human hearing.

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