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Almost all peception is unconscious. That is, no conscious emotional reaction takes place. In subliminal perception there is an emotional component which is conscious but without relation to a cognitive phenomenon. This dissonance between emotional experience and absence of actual concrete...

We always carry with us an expectation of how well-known sounds, music, speech etc, should sound. This expectation gives an initial gut feeling, sort of subliminal perception, of better or worse sound before we can concretely identify what deviates in the sound. The spontaneous gut feeling is...

Thoughts in the head of an audiophile. It is important to respect the musicians' artistic creation. Music production is a work of art. Music today is digital. Why not initially mix the music to an optimal HIFI standard according to the musicians' wishes. The files are then converted using a...

Can't find any masking images for 20 Hz but it's just to do simple interpolation. The lower the frequency, the wider the masking effect. Often the mix engineers do not reproduce low frequencies in the mix. Low frequencies when reproducing the mixing result at home mask large parts of the music...

Here are my reflections on the excellent collection of important studies on how we hear in relation to stimuli - physics. Good concert hall sound is often perceived to have better spatial sound than in ordinary listening rooms. In the well-built concert hall, like Wiener Musikferein, there are...

Echolocation https://phys.org/news/2018-04-humans-echolocation.html Blinds echolocation reveals the importance of reflexes in rooms. Blind people can use echolocation to cycle in traffic. Higher frequencies are crucial for creating a sound image in real time. Through brain placidity areas of...

The question of whether blind people can "hear more" than sighted individuals is complex and involves several factors, including sensory compensation and individual differences in perception. Sensory Compensation: Some studies suggest that, because blind individuals rely more on their other...

I asked ChatGDP. The science of hearing is? ChatGPT The science of hearing encompasses several interdisciplinary fields that explore how sound is perceived, processed, and interpreted by the auditory system. Here’s a breakdown of the key areas involved in the science of hearing: 1. Physics of...

All the body's sound-sensitive sensors converge on the brain. The information from the sensors in the ear dominates. The contributions of other sound sensors are negligible during normal listening. For example, thoracic resonances can be excited by sound levels above 100 dB at 40-60 Hz...

"Beauty is in the Ear (brain) of the Listener." Interesting study. It is hardly a surprise that intraindividual differences affect judgments more than more objective variables when judging sounds. There are significant similarities in how speakers are perceived. If the listener is used to a...

I doubt this small frequency dip is audible for neurophysiological reasons. The inner hair cells have significant frequency overlap especially at high sound pressures and low frequencies. If it was a peak with the same sound pressure difference at a higher frequency, maybe it would be audible...

Higher sound pressure above 85 dB tricks the listener into perceiving it's good. An old trick to sell bad speakers with audible distortion at lower sound volume and measurable even higher distortion at higher sound pressure. 1. Mechanical direct masking of nearby frequencies in the cochlea with...

Non-double-blind studies with subjective sound judgments are often not accurate. The order of rated sounds matters in simple "blind tests". Something a proper double-blind study is not affected by.

An important development of the spinorama technique could be, based on objective measurements, to extrapolate how in a given room (the customer's listening room) calculate the arrival time and loudness of dominant reflexes in the listening position relative to the direct sound. Based on this, it...

Aphantasia is the inability to evoke one's own imagined conscious images. "Anauralia" is the inability to evoke one's imagined conscious sounds. https://nautil.us/people-who-cant-picture-sound-in-their-minds-517529/?_sp=d08e4762-57b3-4197-8a41-d7d361f9fc05.1710337141622 How does the audiophile...

Correct understanding of hearing is much more complicated than psychoacoustics makes it seem. The hearing of sounds is divided into three main areas. All three areas can be found at all major universities — physics, neurophysiology and neuropsychology. Articles in "psychoacoustics" are mainly...

I quickly checked the study. The stimuli are relatively undefined concerning duration, relative loudness and frequency. Which words are used and how familiar the words are to subjects is unclear. Etc. The subjects' hearing status, number, age, gender etc. is unknown. The research area is...

When listening to mono music on a Yamaha NS1000, boxspeaker, height of 0.65 m next to an Apogee Duetta, dipol, height of 1.5 m, the sound from the Yamaha speaker was perceived as clearly smaller despite the possibility of reproducing higher sound pressure, and more bass with lower distortion...

When listening to mono music on a Yamaha NS1000, a height of 0.65 m next to an Apogee Duetta, a height of 1.5 m, the sound from the Yamaha speaker was perceived as clearly smaller despite the possibility of reproducing higher sound pressure, and more bass with lower distortion. Another box...

"Psychoacoustic researchers" usually have a technical background. In the physical dimension, only a few measurements are required to obtain sufficient validity and reliability. When they conclude how measurements in physics affect hearing they make a big mistake. Now "psychoacoustics...