Sensory pleasantness was measured across tones, narrow-band noise, and band-pass noise.

Evidence

The dependence of sensory pleasantness on sharpness was measured using sinusoidal tones, narrow-band noise of 30-Hz bandwidth and band-pass noise with a I-kHz bandwidth as a function of centre frequency. Relative sharpness and relative sensory pleasantness were determined psychoacoustically in separate sessions. The data show some scatter. The relationships between sensory pleasantness and other sensations are given as curves in Fig. 9.4. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1364