Wave theorists typically give up the requirement that an account of sound be faithful to auditory content (although they would not typically acknowledge this; as Pasnau 1999 has remarked, the very same textbook on sounds may simultaneously endorse a medial, a proximal and a distal theory). However, wave theorists may also try to reconcile auditory content with the wave conception. Sorensen (2008) proposes for instance that it is not a purely auditory phenomenon that we do sometimes identify and