Re: Hearing Loss "False Positives" (Laszlo Toth )


Subject: Re: Hearing Loss "False Positives"
From:    Laszlo Toth  <tothl@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:28:52 +0200
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Old guys with undamaged hair cells have the advantage that they can fully > enjoy classical tonal music with its change from dissonant to consonant > chords and back. According to the Helmholtz consonance theory that > change is due to the presence or absence of beats generated by pairs of > partial tones of almost equal frequencies. These partials tend to be > soft, and their frequencies tend to be high. Do you know the answer to the opposite: why is rock music more enjoyable loud? I think that it would be important to understand. Laszlo Toth Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl *


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