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Matt here again. I took an mp3 listening test here a while ago. The shoot out was between an mp3 of 320kb/s vs. and mp3 of 128kb/s. A number of people commented that a test between a pure wav. file against a 320kb/s mp3 would be more useful.
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Ever wondered about hearing voices in your head? I’m sure that’s exactly what the military was aiming for when they originally started project MEDUSA or Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio. The original “telepathic ray gun” works by sending a weak microwave into someone’s head, emitting noises only the person in the wave’s path can [...]
Many people worry about their computers being hacked. Very few worry about eavesdropping used on their printers. In the May 2009 issue of Scientific American, an article talks about potential office hacks using surveillance tactics, one being recording and analyzing the sounds made by a printer. So far, the research has been done on dot-matrix [...]
Take a listen to this clip. (mirror) … careful, it’s loud. What do you hear? If you don’t hear anything, you’re not alone.. and you’re probably over the age of 25. If you can hear it, then you likely find it fairly annoying. As we age, the little hairs in our inner ear lose some [...]
We now have a music and audio forum! We just launched a forum for everyone to discuss music, musicians, audio gear, production and just about everything else that is music or sound related. You can also buy and sell gear (and anything else) in the marketplace section. So, go and visit the forum, and help [...]
Mari Kimura is a New York composer and virtuoso violinist whose music includes haunting low notes on the violin called “subharmonics.” …Problem is, these sounds aren’t supposed to be possible.
OK, these guys are completey crazy. Taken from their website: The Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. The Vegetable Orchestra was founded in 1998. It consists of 11 musicians,
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