[sdiy] jitter analysis

Craig Critchley craigc at nwlink.com
Fri Jul 9 17:56:53 CEST 2004


I've heard this assertion about transients before, but I've never seen any
actual studies or evidence for it. Any references?

				...Craig 

> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> The ear is actually highly nonlinear, especially at high 
> sound levels. A pair of ears are capable of localising 
> transients to a higher resolution than you'd expect from the 
> standard 20-20k argument. And we know very little indeed 
> about how timbral perception works. There may well be - and 
> very likely is - a lot of psychoacoustic processing that 
> relies on correlation/pattern recognition effects, as well as 
> hunting for the fundamental and all kinds of other processes.



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