Dissonance depends on proportional separation falling inside the critical bandwidth, not absolute frequency difference
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- Dissonance cannot be fully quantified because it is a subjective human impression (similarity 0.87)
- Frequency separation between two tones systematically shifts fusion, roughness, then resolution (similarity 0.83)
- Each open-end reflection filters out high frequencies until the fundamental remains (similarity 0.83)
- Active noise cancellation dominates below 1 kHz while passive isolation takes over above it (similarity 0.82)
- Critical band bandwidths grow from 100 Hz to over 2 kHz with frequency (similarity 0.81)
- Filtering a signal to narrow its bandwidth necessarily spreads it in time. (similarity 0.81)
- Amounts of masking are expressed as dB differences, not absolute dB SPL levels. (similarity 0.81)
- Consonance and dissonance judgments stem from critical bandwidth mechanics (similarity 0.81)
- Auditory sensitivity varies nonuniformly across the frequency range (similarity 0.81)
- Inserting a temporal gap can change a sound’s spectrum, confounding gap measures (similarity 0.80)
- Standing waves occur at all multiples of the lowest resonant frequency (similarity 0.80)
- Literature conflating frequency discrimination and FM detection data produces serious confusion (similarity 0.80)
- A filter’s time response is set by its bandwidth, not its center frequency (similarity 0.80)
- Frequency, wavelength, and velocity determine one another (similarity 0.79)
- Beats arise when two close frequencies combine in unresolved filters (similarity 0.79)