The possibility of having a sensation of pitch associated only with a bilateral presentation of acoustic stimuli to the listener was first discovered by Huggins [Cramer and Huggins, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.30, 413–417 (1958)]. Huggins employed a single, smooth‐frequency‐spectrum noise generator, and fed its output directly to one ear, but via an all‐pass phase‐changing network to the other. In the present work, the possibility that this effect is a by‐product of a process of auditory localization has been considered. This has led to the experimental use of a family of new binaural pitch‐producing stimuli obtained from a multiplicity of independent, smooth‐spectrum noise generators which operate in conjunction with continuously variable all‐pass delay lines. Each stimulus configuration may be associated with a simple localization pattern. The pitch associated with a particular pattern depends both on its form and on the magnitudes of the delays involved. Pitch‐matching measurements with these stimuli and a comparison with the more complex pattern of localization which might be associated with the Huggins stimuli support the view that these binaural pitch phenomena are mediated by a process akin to localization rather than by a central frequency‐analysis mechanism.