There is evidence that the ear can discern differences in timing down to
the uS range. See a discussion by David Blackmer of DBX and Earthworks:
http://www.earthworksaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-world-beyond-20kHz.pdf
David McGaw
On 4/1/15 7:11 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
The key jingle experiment is detecting a phase difference between
ears. I was writing about our ability to know if a sound is "in
time" with some other sound. For example if a bass player is keeping
time with a drummer. I figure we can do that to about 20 ms or maybe
a little better. Apparently clicks are easier to hear.
The problem we were solving was Determining if two clocks were in sync
by listening to the ticks.
I don't think you need two iPhones to experiment with audio
perception. A computer that can produce stereo audio and a pair of
headphones would be enough Or a pair of speakers. There is lots of
good quality audio software, some of it free that allows you to make
sounds with various delays. My guess is that most people reading this
already own the required equipment, less the software.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
[email protected] said:
Sound travels at about 1 foot per ms. So you can effectively delay the click
on one phone my placing it 8 feet farther away then the other phone.
Adjust the distance until the clicks seem to occur at the same time. That
said, I doubt your ears are sensitive enough to work at the single digit ms
level.
Your brain uses the difference in arrival times at your ears to determine
direction. That works better with high frequency clicks rather than low
frequency rumbles. You can work out how good it has to be to get reasonable
results, but it's well below 1 ms.
The usual test case is to jingle some keys. Sit on a stool with your eyes
closed. Have a friend jingle the keys in various locations. Right-left
works well. Up-down doesn't work very well.
It would be fun to play with a pair of beeping iPhones and see what sort of
direction they appear to be coming from. I wonder how much the length of the
beep influences things.
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