Spike & Mary Maiden Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: I think Cabbage has come the closest to an objective truth on this. I have noticed an apparent pitch flattening on recordings of pop songs which fade out at the end. I don't hear it on all that do, but I hear it consistently on the same songs. If you are listening to an mp3, then you cannot trust exact pitch fidelity during the mp3 decoding, nor isolation between pitch and volume. All bets are off.
If you are listening to an uncompressed source that can be presumed to preserve accurate frequencies, then you should check whether the perceived flattening is the same when the piece is played very loud and when it is played very softly. The psychological coupling of pitch perception with volume cited by Cabbage suggests the flattening would not be the same at widely different dynamic levels. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
