Yanny or Laurel?

e36Adz said:
It can't have anything to do with the device though surely if some people are hearing both words coming from the same device. Im hearing 'yanny' on all devices.

Not read through the entire thread but unless someone is only ever hearing one word from one device and the other word from a different device, I'd argue it's nothing to do with the device at all. Those I know who hear both, it just randomly changes from one to the other for them. Few can hear both at the same time.
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It isn't purely down to the device but it certainly does make a difference - quite a few people can hear Yanny as well as Laurel on devices with speakers with poor low end response while they only hear one or the other on a higher quality device, etc. and if you chop the file up to remove lower frequencies I can start to hear Yanny. But definitely a large part is how people hear things and how their brain fills in missing information.

EDIT: Also for me if I start removing a lot of the lower frequencies or listen on a device with poor speakers I hear more like Yamme (and the e is barely there) than Yanny while others are adamant it is Yanny - I have to remove practically all the audio before I get the Y at the end and it still doesn't sound like Ns to me.
 
Rroff said:
quite a few people can hear Yanny as well as Laurel on devices with speakers with poor low end response while they only hear one or the other on a higher quality device, etc.
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You've got that the wrong way round Rroff. A balanced system to should reveal both. Low end response wont make any difference, the 'laurel' sound peaks at about 510hz, well outside of what anybody should consider low end.
 
james.miller said:
You've got that the wrong way round Rroff. A balanced system to should reveal both. Low end response wont make any difference, the 'laurel' sound peaks at about 510hz, well outside of what anybody should consider low end.
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Some people like myself can only hear anything like Yanny when you start to strip out the lower end stuff. On a balanced system I only hear Laurel i.e. using my Sennheiser HD600 and an amp with a good linear response.

My hearing is reasonably decent - there a patch around 14KHz IIRC that isn't great but I can hear everything below and above that fine within the normal range.
 
I was just showing my colleges the BBC clip on my Mac at work and I could hear Yanny.

Then I played it on my phone and I could hear Laurel, so I played it again on the computer and could hear Laurel… very odd.
 
if you play the clip from a speaker( phone ) through a noise cancelling microphone, the person listening on the other side will ALWAYS here yanny as the lower frequency is filtered out
 
Rroff said:
Some people like myself can only hear anything like Yanny when you start to strip out the lower end stuff. On a balanced system I only hear Laurel i.e. using my Sennheiser HD600 and an amp with a good linear response.

My hearing is reasonably decent - there a patch around 14KHz IIRC that isn't great but I can hear everything below and above that fine within the normal range.
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I wont try to guess why you can't hear it, but you can verify yourself the they amplitude of the two sounds is broadly similar so something must be interfering if you cant hear both sounds on the treble boosted clip in the OP using a decent set of headphones.
 
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