2016/03/17 17:01:54
craigb
Here's an interesting article debunking a lot of new-age nonsense regarding A should be 432 Hz.
 
https://ask.audio/articles/music-theory-432-hz-tuning-separating-fact-from-fiction
 
 
2016/03/17 17:31:21
bapu
Only if you're not James Taylor.
2016/03/17 18:17:54
michaelhanson
I hear Bapu is an expert on Am, he may be able to shed some insight.
2016/03/17 18:24:43
drewfx1
I'm glad they brought up the second.
 
Though it wasn't mentioned in that article, many of the boneheads who believe this stuff assert that "432 is a natural universal ratio" of some sort.
 
I find it hysterically stupid that their magic frequency matching this magic ratio is based on a unit Hz, or cycles per second.
 
Because the second is a completely arbitrary unit that is what it is only because of a number of random accidents of history involving the way various people decided to divide up time based on particular cycles that only apply to this particular planet and were later redefined a number of times:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#History_of_definition
 
Since the second is not any kind of universal unit, 432 cycles/second can't be either. Because if you change what "second" means, you won't get 432 any more. 
 
And the ratio between 440 and 432 is only ~1.0185. Which means that if Hz had even existed in ancient times, the ancients' definition and measurement of a second couldn't possibly be that accurate or consistent with modern measurements to get the same number 432 anyway. 
2016/03/17 18:25:36
sharke
File this one along with "People used to use pit bulls as nanny dogs to look after their children" under "nonsense people believe simply by virtue of having read it online." 
2016/03/18 10:30:12
bitflipper
Pfft. Everybody knows 504.88 Hz is the third harmonic of the frequency of the sun.
 

 
Or maybe you subscribe to the 396 Hz magic frequency theory...
 

2016/03/18 10:32:14
BobF
Is it true binaural, or is it 2x monaural panned left/right?
 
 
2016/03/18 11:23:53
bitflipper
I suspect somebody duct-taped a pair of cheap microphones to the sides of a soccer ball, stuck it in front of their laptop speakers, and called it "holophonic" because that sounds, like, scientific and stuff.
2016/03/18 12:27:04
bapu
I'll leave the science to the men in white coats.
 
I play the bazz.
2016/03/18 12:29:38
bapu
michaelhanson
I hear Bapu is an expert on Am, he may be able to shed some insight.


 
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