Nod to The Legend · The inventions · 1933
Harvey Fletcher and Wilden Munson
Bell Labs researchers
Their equal-loudness curves showed that our ears hear lows and highs as quieter than the mids at low volume. It's why mixes sound thin when you turn them down.
Still heard: LUFS loudness metering is weighted from the same science.
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