Sensory pleasantness decreases as sound sharpness increases

Evidence

It becomes clear that sensory pleasantness decreases with increa.<..;ing sharpness. Pure tones already show the largest sensory pleasantness, while the band-pass noise seems to be a sound with low sensory pleasantness. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1364

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: pleasantness of everyday sounds scores predictable by psychoacoustic sharpness.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1364
• XREF: connects to: Sensory consonance depends on roughness, sharpness, and tonalness — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 2040; Sound level has only a weak effect on perceived sharpness — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1210; Sharpness is a stable, subject-independent psychoacoustic quantity (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Sensory consonance depends on roughness, sharpness, and tonalness #corroborates (0.85) — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 2040
• Sound level has only a weak effect on perceived sharpness #qualifies (0.75) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1210
• Sharpness is a stable, subject-independent psychoacoustic quantity #complicates (0.72)