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  2. Loudness - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal axis shows frequency in Hertz. In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.More formally, it is defined as the "attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". [1]

  3. What Can Humans Hear? Exploring the World of Auditory ... - AOL

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    For example, vowel sounds are louder and lower frequency sounds, while consonants are softer and higher frequency. ... We rely on timing differences for low-frequency sounds (below 1500 Hz) to ...

  4. Temporal envelope and fine structure - Wikipedia

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    Although pitch retrieval mechanisms in the auditory system are still a matter of debate, [76] [115] TFS n information may be used to retrieve the pitch of low-frequency pure tones [75] and estimate the individual frequencies of the low-numbered (ca. 1st-8th) harmonics of a complex sound, [116] frequencies from which the fundamental frequency of ...

  5. Sound localization - Wikipedia

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    Loudness: Distant sound sources have a lower loudness than close ones. This aspect can be evaluated especially for well-known sound sources. Sound spectrum: High frequencies are more quickly damped by the air than low frequencies. Therefore, a distant sound source sounds more muffled than a close one, because the high frequencies are attenuated.

  6. Low-frequency effects - Wikipedia

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    The low-frequency effects (LFE) channel is a band-limited audio track that is used for reproducing deep and intense low-frequency sounds in the 3–120 Hz frequency range. [1] [2] [3] [4]

  7. Infrasound - Wikipedia

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    Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound or subsonic, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility ...

  8. Sound - Wikipedia

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    Infrasound is sound waves with frequencies lower than 20 Hz. Although sounds of such low frequency are too low for humans to hear as a pitch, these sound are heard as discrete pulses (like the 'popping' sound of an idling motorcycle). Whales, elephants and other animals can detect infrasound and use it to communicate.

  9. Auditory masking - Wikipedia

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    The curve is much shallower in the high frequencies than in the low frequencies. This flattening is called upward spread of masking and is why an interfering sound masks high frequency signals much better than low frequency signals. [1] Figure B also shows that as the masker frequency increases, the masking patterns become increasingly compressed.