dirtmudd Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 8/6/2022 at 7:28 AM, Racer X said: Following is a list of genres ( if one may be allowed to label, all Japanese ) I never knew existed before I chanced upon a suggested YouTube link: Japanese idol Classic Japanese idol Growth Period idol Kawaii Metal Techno Electro Pop Electro Rap Jazz idol Goth rock Jazz rock City Pop Pop rock Hard rock, World Domination All girl bands. Japanese have a penchant for "The Gap", merging kawaii ( cute ) and cool. The music, production, and talent is off the charts, and often has unexpected breaks and twists. The artistry is top notch, fresh, and extremely prolific. Some of the groups or artists I follow drop songs almost weekly. Western music is stale, repetitious, unimaginative, and full of hipster posers by comparison. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racer X Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Thanks Muddy Dirt, Downloaded and added to my playlist for further review on the room stereo. Not big into the jazz, but this makes the cut. Reply back with CINDY, a 90s angel that left us far too early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubo Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 7/30/2022 at 9:08 AM, Schu said: Is Music getting worse? not necessarily. Different frequencies create different effects in the brain depending the the desired effects. This has been studied extensively and is well understood. Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization or neural entrainment, refers to the observation that brainwaves (large-scale electrical oscillations in the brain) will naturally synchronize to the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, such as flickering lights,[1] speech,[2] music,[3] or tactile stimuli. As different conscious states can be associated with different dominant brainwave frequencies,[4] it is hypothesized that brainwave entrainment might induce a desired state. Researchers have found, for instance, that acoustic entrainment of delta waves in slow wave sleep had the functional effect of improving memory in healthy subjects.[5] wiki General Concepts and Formal Models of Entrainment by a Periodic External Drive One property of oscillating elements commonly found in nature is that they are self-sustained and dynamic (e.g., Glass, 2001; Pikovsky et al., 2003). Such oscillators can be perturbed by an external force. If this force is periodic, the natural oscillation may then become synchronized to the periodic event. Synchronization here means that the oscillating element starts to cycle with the same period as the external force. Or in other terms, the oscillator becomes entrained or locked to the external event. In this context, synchronization, entrainment, and locking are synonymous1 (Pikovsky et al., 2003). We will use the term entrainment to denote synchronization to a rhythmic stream (or train) of external events. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00170/full Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubo Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 8/5/2022 at 3:45 PM, billybob said: Yep: https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/05/mofi-records-analog-digital-scandal/ Early digital had a greater quantization error, and was clipped or compressed to fit the CD limits 20Khz top end. MP3 is the wholesale slaughter with psycho acoustics added in for the missing music.... If you have a quality analog recording, and digitally encode it at high bit rates, the quantization saw tooth is certainly much less pronounced, although even with in finite processing speed will always be there. The encoding and decoding algorithms also vary greatly in their effect. It would be interesting to measure the frequencies above the CD limit on one of their vinyl records to see what is there..... I believe an analog master encoded with current state of the art hardware and software, can sound as good or better than pure vinyl. The truth in labeling remains a requirement.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 The Quadraphonic LPs had frequency content all the way up to 45 kHz. The problem was that the top frequency limit would gradually become lower due to wear from being played. I’m not sure how many plays would reduce the limit down to below 30 kHz, or if there’s a frequency below which the grooves would be safe if the record was played on good quality equipment. The other extreme, of course, was the old gramophones, with steel styli that looked like nails and tracking forces measured in ounces, not grams. Their 78 rpm records only contained content to 14 kHz or so, and after 20 or 30 plays, it would be down to 12k, and so on, until a 78 with lots of plays would be down to 8 or 9 kHz. Music reproduction equipment and media has really come a long way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racer X Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Just opened my computer today to be greeted by this: Freshest of the fresh, as usual a great tune along with spectacular video, but only to be expected as business as usual with this band. Very thankful and I am not worthy.... Was also greeted today by a teaser snippet of new tune from the Jazz idol group I follow, did not expect to hear from that group again.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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