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From what I remember Golden Ears would play pink noise with different octaves boosted. Each octave would get boosted together, not specific frequencues, and I don't remember any sine waves. The amount it was cut or boosted was some crazy amount like 12dB too.

That was only one section of Golden Ears, I think. It definitely had distinct sine wave tests. If I remember right, the full on thing (used to go for $499.00) had 7 disks worth of stuff on it. I could be wrong, though...that was a long time ago.

83 in the tone deaf, 07 in the second one.


in which direction were you looking at during the test? i was looking right. why i am asking? i don't know.


edit: loudspeakers. the second test was a lot easier, though cause there was a "repeat" button. 36 melodies was too much for me, i got a lot "i don't know. i missed the first melody" in the first one.


ha! i'm almost 100% retarded! i knew it! the question that saved me from being a complete retard was the pinoccio one.

86.1/1.65

72.2% on the differentiation.

Tones between 1.8 hZ on the other.

Laptop speakers with the heat going loudly in the background.


I'm kind of pissed off about that first result.

mhannigan wrote:

greg wrote:91.7% I was listening for slight pitch changes at first thinking this was also the pitch thing. That may have hurt me. I believed I could ace it on the second run. I did not ace it.

1.05Hz for the real pitch thing. Lets tune some pianos!

I couldn't find out if I was retarded or not though.

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80.6% on 1st. 0.28125 Hz on 2nd. Both through the crappy internal speaker on the front of my mac!

mattr wrote:80.6% on 1st. 0.28125 Hz on 2nd. Both through the crappy internal speaker on the front of my mac!

Jebus H. Christing.

rayj wrote:
I think this depends on a set of variables. Amongst those variables are probably such items as:

1. overall amplitude. Fletcher-Munson curves, anyone?

2. hearing damage. I have a dead ear on the right to anything over 18khz or so. I used to hear OVER 20khz, I think. According to the old test at the St. Louis science center, anyway...

3. practice. Critical listening skills get better with practice. That 'Golden Ears' training thing works wonders. You lose it if you don't use it, though...

4. fatigue. As in hearing fatigue.

Ray -

Here I am, disagreeing with you again. Please don't take it personally.

1. Amplitude shouldn't be a factor. The test allows you to change the volume and replay the sample. F/M is a test of apparent loudness, so I don't see how that would be relevant.
2 - 4. While all of these should affect how someone performs on the test, it doesn't change my point. The developer noted on his message board put my suspicions in technical language that made sense. There's a greater hz difference in high frequency semitones than in low frequency semi-tones. Since the test measures variations of tones in comparison to a 500hz tone, the measurements given are only relevant for that tone.

= Justin