Laurel vs Yanny : VOTE POLL & Someone please explain!

[LazyListener]

That New York Times article suggests that the source of the audio clip comes from the word "Laurel." Playing with that pitch slider, I had to get up to the last notch or 2 to start hearing Yanny. What's weird is that within a fixed point in that pitch range near "Yanny," without moving the slider, my perception alone went from Laurel to Yanny and I couldn't get back to hearing Laurel again until I moved the pitch selector down a notch towards Laurel. I literally heard the word change while listening and not moving the pitch selector. Weird stuff indeed.

 

[Lurk650]

I moved it a notch towards Laurel, and my coworker who only hears Yanny when towards Yanny was still hearing that but I was now hearing Laurel and barely Yanny. Pretty interesting stuff

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

Guys what is this we're experiencing?!? Is the matrix short circuiting??

Seriously super interesting! It was in the AM news and they were interviewing hearing/sound professionals and even they were getting mixed results!

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

I got it to the point on the bar where sometimes it'd say Laurel, sometimes yawwy, and sometimes Yanny. Mind blown folks

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

So the New York times created a slider that changes the pitch and it's super weird. You can really mess with your brain. If you move the slider very slowly, i can almost get all the way in the Laurel side before I actually start hearing Laurel. If I hear Laurel, and start moving slowly back to the yanny side I can get just past the middle before I hear yanny again. Normally, in the middle I hear yanny. About one increment over is where I hear Laurel if it's fresh and not playing in a loop.

Weird stuff. Some of my co-workers have areas they can hear both, but I don't have that anywhere I can tell.

 

[SciOC]

Yeah. The fact that if you move the slider very slowly that it will change the location of where it changes from yanny to Laurel is all the evidence needed to prove brain burn in is a real thing, at least for me personally. Weird stuff how your brain adjusts around the tone.

 

[bigshot]

mental burn in?

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

Adaptation is better in terms of physio rather than parts settlement.

Folks we're representing a big portion of headphone listeners here. Currently 25 guests viewing so I'm guessing people doing viral searches are popping in. Need more input from the seasoned in the community!

 

[SciOC]

I love these types of things. Anyone know where this sound can be downloaded? I'd like to mess with it in EQ and see whether I can figure out exactly where the cutoff is. My guess is that when people are talking about"high and low frequencies" here were really constricted to mid-range since it's a male voice. We're not talking about either one of the extreme ends of the spectrum, probably more minute changes in our perceptions between 250-2000hz.

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

I think he can't explain what's going on... although he seems to roam sound science quite a bit ?

 

[RRod]

I love these types of things. Anyone know where this sound can be downloaded? I'd like to mess with it in EQ and see whether I can figure out exactly where the cutoff is. My guess is that when people are talking about"high and low frequencies" here were really constricted to mid-range since it's a male voice. We're not talking about either one of the extreme ends of the spectrum, probably more minute changes in our perceptions between 250-2000hz.

Try this.

 

[ev13wt]

I hear both, with the Yeani being a lot quieter.

Ignore the dude with the low LOW ass voice saying "Loral" and try to hear the child saying Yea-ni. Works for me, If I concentrate on that.

The filtering out of the Laurel works best for me, i.e. "ignore the really deep voice, brain!"

 

[ev13wt]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

So the New York times created a slider that changes the pitch and it's super weird. You can really mess with your brain. If you move the slider very slowly, i can almost get all the way in the Laurel side before I actually start hearing Laurel. If I hear Laurel, and start moving slowly back to the yanny side I can get just past the middle before I hear yanny again. Normally, in the middle I hear yanny. About one increment over is where I hear Laurel if it's fresh and not playing in a loop.

Weird stuff. Some of my co-workers have areas they can hear both, but I don't have that anywhere I can tell.

Now that is cool. My point is somewhere around 3/4 of that scale, and I can replicate it like you - moving it to the left slowly makes my brain work overtime. Awesome little tool!

 

[swesko]

i started it with Yanny, 5 minutes later all i could hear was laurel and thats from the same source. This morning i tried again before listening to any music, i heard yanni 30 seconds later it was all Lauren !!!black magic. Also saw that NYT earlier and i can hear it changing all the way to either Laurel or yanny with both if i tilt it a bit to the right

 

[RollsDownWindowsManually]

Just goes to show why people's preference for headphones is all over the place. 100% Laurel every time here but my mother hears Yanny. She has some hearing loss with tinnitus too.

 

[Whazzzup]

Here let me explain.