Digital recordings

[monotonic]

It is kind of strange that a digital system might be more sensitive to higher realms, since digital converters would be less sensitive to electromagnetic noise than say tape. Perhaps there is a difference in what realms they detect?

A repeating theme I've seen is of a device that in one way or another, runs a recording or measurement through a cheese grater - cutting up and mixing recorded events in seemingly arbitrary ways - and then for some reason the output has some connection with higher realms. Digital recordings qualify in that frequencies above the Nyquist frequency (Fs/2) can get chopped up and mixed down to audible frequencies. This might not in the end be much different than what you are saying about the time between samples, just starting at a different arm of the equation.

If this is a legitimate part of the process, I can think of a few reasons it might make sense:

1: It destroys the 3D signals that normally drown out subtle energies.
2: Events in higher realms don't follow linear time and so a time-linear recording might not capture them anyways. Frequency and wavelength are derived from time, so the same could be said of frequency-linear recordings, wavelength-linear recordings, etc.

 

[BHelmet]

It is kind of strange that a digital system might be more sensitive to higher realms, since digital converters would be less sensitive to electromagnetic noise than say tape. Perhaps there is a difference in what realms they detect?

A repeating theme I've seen is of a device that in one way or another, runs a recording or measurement through a cheese grater - cutting up and mixing recorded events in seemingly arbitrary ways - and then for some reason the output has some connection with higher realms. Digital recordings qualify in that frequencies above the Nyquist frequency (Fs/2) can get chopped up and mixed down to audible frequencies. This might not in the end be much different than what you are saying about the time between samples, just starting at a different arm of the equation.

If this is a legitimate part of the process, I can think of a few reasons it might make sense:

1: It destroys the 3D signals that normally drown out subtle energies.
2: Events in higher realms don't follow linear time and so a time-linear recording might not capture them anyways. Frequency and wavelength are derived from time, so the same could be said of frequency-linear recordings, wavelength-linear recordings, etc.

It sounds like you might be assuming they meant that the play-back system is the determining factor but I interpreted it as digitally generated/sourced music - i.e., synths - which, have almost limitless possibilities to generate sounds that are "other worldly".

 

[Divide by Zero]

This whole thing of digital cutting out detail is moot because of the sample rate.
The sample rate being higher than the actual frequency means that the wave is not UP DOWN ZERO as we think it is especially at the auditory ranges and not the super high almost inaudible (both speakers and our ears usually can barely hear it).

In analog electronics you have the same thing with crystals which do the analog "sampling". Both systems are only as good as their components and even before you play it, the microphone or mixer board could be distorting the original sound!

At the super high frequencies, around 20 khz, we hit a point where there are 2 or 3 samples per half wave. However, the higher frequencies are rarely heard and not felt. I said in an earlier post that what is used for inducing alpha, theta, gamma waves (where suggestions go deep in a hypnotic state) come from low frequencies, where there are thousands/hundreds of samples per second or more. In fact, for movies, the bass channel uses much less bandwidth to save it for higher frequencies because bass is a very slow, drawn out wave.

I can say that music these days has more obsession on beats and bass, both of which drive me crazy when overdone. The older music has a bass line that is smoother and more in sync with the music. It's like art, the symphony of the paining or music no longer happens- we seek "hits" of drugs from music and art.

There is one thing that bugs me about live music, as I had a friend who was obsessed with live shows. Sometimes the lyrics are almost inaudible because the show pumps up the amps for the instruments/bass. In that case, what's the point of lyrics if you can barely hear what the singer is actually saying??? I think by that point, it becomes subliminal as the fans rock their heads in a rhythmic hypnotic manner.

 

[monotonic]

The only crystal I know of in a turntable system is the tip of the needle, but it would also work if it was metal, just wouldn't last very long. Transistors are technically crystal, but in tubes the signal flows through gas. Digital sampling is something specific.

To be clear, when I was talking about details going missing in a recording, I was meaning for any kind of system, not just digital or analog. You can get this effect with either system.

The accuracy of digital is fine. If there is something wrong with it it's not because of large errors. It is either small errors that people can be very sensitive to, or because of something not having anything to do with the quality of the actual sound.