To me the "Laurel" just gets more and more distorted, and I start to hear a faint squeaky yerry... yerry... yerry on top of it. But it sounds more like an artifact than like a separate voice. I have no idea how it sounds like Yanni to anyone, but maybe I've lost my ability to hear high frequencies with age. (40m)

Glad to know I'm not alone. I feel as though I've probably abused my ears over the years with headphones and concerts. Plus I've had several experiences where I haven't heard high frequences that were unmistakable to others.

So I end up interpreting the Yanny/Laurel thing through the lens of a pre-existing anxiety regarding hearing loss. I have no idea if that's actually the right way to think of it, but nevertheless it's where my mind goes instinctually.

Push it all the way to the left, listen to the Laural, then slam it all the way to the right during a silence.

I find that if I move the slider while the sound is playing, or if I move the slider really slowly, my ears stick to the last word I heard.

Another thing is that the speakers matter. I can't hear Laural on my laptop, but I can hear it on my phone.

Weird, I hear Laurel all the way until the last tick on the right when I start hearing a very distorted Gailey. To the right of that it's all Laurel

I suspect this has to do with frequency aliasing and high frequency hearing loss.

Interesting, I hear yanny almost all the way to the left.