Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpm!fish From: fish@ihlpm.UUCP (Bob Fishell) Newsgroups: net.med,net.info-terms,net.audio Subject: Re: "Ultrasonic" hearing Message-ID: <652@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 17:56:14 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpm.652 Posted: Thu Jan 9 17:56:14 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 07:22:41 EST References: <1280@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.med:3091 net.info-terms:791 net.audio:7052 > For what it's worth, the latest issue (#28, I think) of The $ensible Sound, > an "underground" audio magazine, has a report of a recent study which > found that people could *really* hear up to 40 kHz, not the > previously-believed 20 kHz limit. The older studies, according to the > item, used transducers to reproduce the high-frequency sounds which were > defective or inferior, masking the higher frequencies in distortion. > > There was no reference or citation[.] Sounds like more smoke blown up the wazoo by the anti-digital crowd to me. -- __ / \ \__/ Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihlpg!fish