[Noisebridge-discuss] why a sine wave?

[epsas at evil-wire.org]

Personally, I prefer teh square, 6-million dollar man bionic sound.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:59:27AM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> Why do we perceive a sine audio wave as a "pure" tone? Does it have to
> do with the mechanical vibrations in our ear? Does any non-sine wave
> introduce harmonics, vibrations other than the fundamental, which our
> brain perceives as non-pure?
> 
> Regardless of mechanics, what is the perceptive reason a sine wave
> sounds pure?
> 
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