The pleasantries of sound

I’m a quality freak! Hate me if you will cos my motto is if the art is good, it must be appreciated at it’s best!!


Well, I’m just excited by the much better sound I’m enjoying on Kotoko’s Hane album. A whole lot better than the Variable Bit Rate MP3s I downloaded weeks ago. While most of you will definitely say it makes no difference, either you are a casual listener or you probably don’t listen to music as much as I did.


All I have left now is to get a pair of popular Panasonic earphones and another Creative Audigy sound card for my machine at work to up the pleasure another notch. [XD]


When listening to music, I go into detail. I had a problem listening to songs encoded with Sony’s LP4 mode for the minidisc. The sound is so “hollow” it makes me physically uncomfortable. I want to hear clearly, each instrument that contributes to the overall piece of work. My Sony earphones that block out external-noise has helped me with this.


Physics taught us that the human ear cannot hear sounds with frequencies beyond the 20Hz-20,000Hz range, but it never said you can’t feel them. This explains how in some movies, very-high frequency sound can be used to hurt people’s ears till it bleeds. This also explains why I find the sound of violin so soothing to my ears. Same goes for the human voice.


Since I listen to music/songs so often everyday, I feel I might as well take the extra step and let my ears feel the goodness too~


Lastly, I’m open to constructive comments/flame. [:)]

One Reply to “The pleasantries of sound”

  1. Hmmm… for me I cant really hear much difference. Probably cos I dont really listen to music. *haha*

    I only play songs when the surrounding is too quiet and causes my ear to have some ringing sound.

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