A signal which contains all possible audio frequencies in equal average amplitudes. Useful for testing equipment.
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Consonance Dissonance
An aesthetic judgment of the relative attractiveness of combinations of notes sounded together. Consonance relates to a more pleasant experience for the listener while dissonance relates to a less pleasant experience. The judgment of whether any given interval falls into one category or the other has been arbitrarily applied throughout history, with a general tendency for the progressing acceptance of smaller intervals. The terms are also used in a stricter sense in theories of tonal harmony.
