This study explored the ability of blind and sighted listeners to detect reflections, “echoes”, of burst trains or continuous noise. Echo detection was compared by presenting 5ms bursts, rates from 1 to 64 bursts, with a continuous white noise, all during 500ms. Sounds were recorded in an ordinary room through an artificial binaural head, the loudspeaker 1m behind it. The reflecting object was an aluminum disk, diameter 0.5m, placed at 1m. The sounds were presented to 12 blind and 26 sighted participants in a laboratory using a 2-Alternative-Forced-Choice methodology. The task was to detect which of two sounds contained an echo. In Experiment 2, 1.5m distance sounds were presented to the blind only. At 1m, detection for the blind increased up to 64 bursts/500ms, but for the sighted up to 32 bursts. At 1.5m, the peak performance for the blind was at 32 bursts. At the 1m, but not at the 1.5m distance, the blind performed best with continuous white noise. The overlap in time of signal and echo at 1m for 64 bursts was 60%, but at 1.5m 82%. Avoiding an overlap between emitted bursts and returning echoes seems important for echolocation, indicating that an acoustic gaze, analogous to in echolocating animals, may also exist in humans.