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Why Music Is Good For The Brain
Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else "In a 2010 study published in Music Perception, Halpern and colleagues had musicians listen to the first minute of familiar classical pieces and record their judgments of the emotions they were hea... 
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
If you have dug into Bigfoot you know they have a highly developed and sometimes devious sense of humor. My "orgonite plug."  Please explain.  
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
Dude - watch the video. All will be explained. It is not sensationalist. Why you would automatically assume that I would direct your attention to something distracting is puzzling, nor would I ever be engaged in "derailing" a thread that I had sta... 
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
I was hoping this thread would expose some of the people here who pride themselves on being open-minded but who in fact have some old-fashioned prejudices still lurking in their dark corners. Everyone does.    
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
Mahgister - Did you actually listen to the entire interview? I can't believe you did. There are things in there in concordance with your general take on sound and music. Very surprising to hear your reaction.  
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
Sasquatch Music How about we go a bit further off the reservation, This interview with Henry Franzoni who is at the top of the heap among Bigfoot researchers slowly morphs into the paranormal or what I prefer to call the supranormal and finally g... 
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
As a maker and purveyor of orgonite for the past ten years, I understand what you are saying - there are vibrations we experience that are not acoustic but which suggest sound as we interact with them and which give us something analogous to sound... 
Speaker Spikes - Working Principle
Once you are wedded to stereo systems it is like any other marriage - you have to try lots of things to keep it going, and even if you think you have it finally settled you will keep tweaking anyway because the great unknown is always beckoning. I... 
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
Sound In Outer Space We take it for granted that sound is everywhere, but it's not. In most of the universal vacuum there is only an ultra-low frequency hum in some gas and dust clouds. All other sounds are non-existent, and even that hum is not ... 
Robert Plant
Zarhoff on Plant This is my favorite of opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff's analyses - in this case of Plant's "Since I've Been Loving You" during the 1973 Madison Square Garden performance when they were at the pinnacle.  
What use to burn in power cords?
And yet no one does more "burn in" than the wags on this forum who endlessly post rebuttals and fulminations about the follies of burn-in. I fear their "dynamics" will suffer irreparably if they cannot get their weekly burn-in.  
Speaker Spikes - Working Principle
How many angels can dance on the head of a spike?  
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
Bull Roarer    
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
A very big mystery is how some people can get so worked up about it.  
"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"
"As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of ...