Question: what is the difference between white noise and pink noise?
Answer: White noise is equal energy per frequency and pink noise is equal energy per octave. ... The difference between 5 kHz and 10 kHz is also one octave. However, in terms of frequencies the difference between 100 Hz and 200 Hz is only 100 Hz, whereas the difference between 5,000 Hz and 10,000 Hz is 5,000 Hz.