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With absence of any room reflections, is it possible for humans to detect the vertical location of a sound that is centered in front?
I know both ears are on the horizontal plane, and the brain performs crazy calculations to find the audio location based the difference between the two ears, but would a sound that is perfectly centered be vertically indistinguishable?
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Whenever I get done doing a ventriloquism performance, I will always have one or two people who say, "I could have sworn the voice was coming from the puppet's mouth!"
I just smile, and silently point at the left and right speakers at the front of the auditorium, and wait for it to sink in that the voice was actually coming from two sound sources several yards away from either me or the puppet.
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Humans are spectacularly bad at determining the source of a sound, and not just because of reflections.
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