From: csjm@alpha.cs.ru.ac.za (Jon-Dean Mountjoy)
Subject: Re: What is the resolution of human hearing?
Date: 20 Jul 91 06:31:00 GMT
Message-ID: <csjm.679991460@alpha>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa



In <1991Jul18.184025.9933@milton.u.washington.edu> dnettles@libserv1.ic.
sunysb.edu (David E Nettles) writes:

>What is the resolution of human hearing?

>For vision I think it is 24 frames/sec.  What is it for sound?

>Thanks in advance!

>[MODERATOR'S NOTE:  I think that the human ear is sensitive to frequencies
>from about 60 Hz to 17KHz; the phone tops out at around 8 KHz.  The first
>figure could be wrong, however; and of course, the body is sensitive to
>vibrations way down into the single figures.  Other dimensions:  volume,
>direction, separation, etc.  More input, please! -- Bob Jacobson]

True, I think that for 'young' persons, the top of the range is said to be
around 20KHz.  

An interesting piece of information was given to me by a couple of 
audiophiles.  They say (with much faith), that the human ear is capable of
hearing transients up to 50KHz.  I do not know whether this is true, but
many music studios do have sampling capabilities up to 100Khz.

Oh Well
Cheers
Jon-Dean Mountjoy
csjm@alpha.ru.ac.za