In article , James Perrett
wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:50:54 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , James Perrett
wrote:

I thought that Oohashi's work had been pretty much discredited by
now. Certainly no-one seems to have been able to reproduce his
results.

His results are certainly 'curious'. Do you know of any references to
reports of contrary work?


I don't know of any papers - I'm probably half remembering something
posted by Jim Johnson to the pro-audio mailing list.

FWIW It would not surprise me particularly if it turned out that Oohashi's
results were unreliable for some reason. However although I have doubts, as
yet I've not seen any more reliable work that shows he may have been wrong,
or why/how... So at present I would not personally regard his results as
'discredited' (except perhaps in the sense that some people have insisted
he must be wrong). I'd welcome some evidence on this, though.

However even if he is incorrect, the basic point I made a while does
remain. That the physiology of hearing is well-established to be nonlinear.
Thus measurements using single sinewave tones do not necessarily tell us
what components do (or do not) make an audible different to more complex
sounds. (Indeed, the exploitation of 'masking' in psycho-acoustic data
reduction relies on one aspect of this.)

Slainte,

Jim

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