average human hearing cuts off at around 17k...not many people really hear
anything about that (although we may percieve the air up there we don't
really hear it)...just FYI...our ears get worse, as in our hearing gets
worse, everyday after we are born...so maybe you can hear from 20-20 when
your a toddler and female...females have better hearing then males...just
the facts.
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quoted 5 lines From: Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>>From: Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] a question about perception of sound
>Date: Tue, Aug 22, 2000, 12:03 PM
>quoted 29 lines On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Alex Reynolds wrote:>
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Alex Reynolds wrote:
>> just curious, but is there anyone out there who is a sound engineer?
>> i'm wondering what the cut-off point is for most people, i.e. around
>> what bpm measure do our brains stop detecting beats and hear a
>> continuous sound, instead? i would think it varies from person to
>> person, but i wonder where and by how much...
>>
>> -a.
>
> I think someone already mentioned this, but what the hey...
>
> 20 Hz ... or 1200 BPM, on average.
>
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