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Subject: 1. Re: Olympus LS-14 initial thoughts
From: "mipartitus" mipartitus
Date: Sun Jan 6, 2013 5:59 am ((PST))
Hi Max,

--- In  "Max"  wrote:
> Even people who hear well, as I understand it, rarely hear 20K.

This is true but it should be noted that audibility curves are usually 
determined using unmodulated pure tones, which are extremely simple and 
unnatural sounds. How exactly these results translate into the perception of 
complex sounds, the ones that occur in nature, is not fully understood.

Cheers, Gabriel 







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