yea. i dont get the same thing quite. instead i get what appears to be a
substantially higher tempo whenever i listen to anything in headphones as
opposed to open air. ive never bothered to find out why it happens
because im so fucking lazy but like you im dead curious what its all
about. sorry i cant answer your question but this is the first time
anyone has asked anything similar and i thought id compoind the query a
little because perhaps the two are related somehow. any of you nice forks
got any idas? cya. m. ed eval
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Peter Shultz wrote:
quoted 20 lines Hi everybody,> Hi everybody,
> This is probably off-topic, but someboy out there might find this interesting. Here's my problem: I've noticed that when I have music playing on at a medium-loud volume on my headphones, and then take them off while the music keeps playing, the pitch I hear coming from the 'phones sags by as much as a quarter-tone compared to when I had them on my head. Is this just me, or has anyone else noticed it too?
> I haven't seen this illusion dealt with in any of the psychoacoustics material I've read (granted, that's not saying much), and nobody I know has spoken of it, so can anyone tell me why it's happening?
> Here are my hypotheses, and why I think they're all false:
>
> 1) "It's just a Doppler shift caused my the motion of my headphones away from my head." This is false because the pitch-sag persists even when I'm holding the headphones still.
>
> 2) "It's a psychoacoustic relation between volume and pitch." This still may be partially true, but turning the volume up and down on my loudspeakers has no effect on the pitch. I noticed, however, that headphone pitch-sag is most noticable when the music is played at louder volumes.
>
> Anyway, it's something I've been curious about for a while, so I'd be interested to hear someone's explanation.
>
> -Peter
>
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