For example, when I listen to this track at a higher volume, I have to physically shudder at 0:17 and can hardly listen to it. On speakers it's only a little better.
Is this a case of bad engineering or am I simply very sensitive to certain high frequencies? This is obviously not the only example, there's lots of others, but this track is a very bad case. A shame since I really like it otherwise.
Woony
Here's another example @ 0:29. Not as bad as the other track but still.
Adam420
Look at the label art, that track is meant to with you head, lol
Woony
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Originally posted by Adam420
Look at the label art, that track is meant to with you head, lol
There's a difference between ' with your head' and 'physically hurts to listen to'
Besides, that track is not very 'head' just well executed ambient techno :p
Can you listen to that part just fine? (at higher volumes)
That's my question.
Adam420
It's a little harsh yea but it doesn't hurt me or anything
SYSTEM-J
This is a good thing, really. It shows your ears are still in good condition. But then, aren't you only 18? Your hearing dies naturally over the course of your life, and a few years clubbing and exposing them to loud volume for extended period will speed that process up.
I do get this occasionally - high frequencies can be painful and occasionally I have to turn a track down because a hi-hat is going right through me. Happened last night, actually. I find the hi-hats in your OP track pretty painful at high volume, but we're talking 50% higher than I usually play music.
Vector A
For me it usually happens most with lower quality speakers that seem to have certain resonant frequencies to them. Match those up with the wrong song and it can be awful.
rawbound
This one is a bit over the top for me. Really like the rest of the album though.
Lunar Phase 7
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
This is a good thing, really. It shows your ears are still in good condition. But then, aren't you only 18? Your hearing dies naturally over the course of your life, and a few years clubbing and exposing them to loud volume for extended period will speed that process up.
I do get this occasionally - high frequencies can be painful and occasionally I have to turn a track down because a hi-hat is going right through me. Happened last night, actually. I find the hi-hats in your OP track pretty painful at high volume, but we're talking 50% higher than I usually play music.
Not always System.
Hyper-Sensitivity to alarms, sirens, high pitched noises can actually be an indicator of hearing damage.
I get it and I know I've ed my ears.
freakster
if you go out to clubs regularly you should buy musicians earplugs. got em years ago and they halted my hearing loss and tinutis. best money I ever spent.
Woony
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I do get this occasionally - high frequencies can be painful and occasionally I have to turn a track down because a hi-hat is going right through me. Happened last night, actually. I find the hi-hats in your OP track pretty painful at high volume, but we're talking 50% higher than I usually play music.
It don't really have a problem with the hi hats, it's those cymbals (I think they are cymbals?) at 0:17 for example that appear for about a second or two.
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Originally posted by Euforix
Either the artist wants to trick you or he has as bad hearing as I have because I don't know what are you talking about since I don't hear anything special at 0:17 in that sample you posted.
It's those cymbals (I think?) that appear for like a second or two. They go right through me. The rest of the track is pretty unproblematic.
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Originally posted by pozz
yea, it's hearing damage. i was ultra-sensitive to CRT tvs, clanging spoons, pencils tapping on desks. best advice is to lay off music and computers for a while, get some rest, but that is unlikely to happen for addicts like us. eventually it will go, but not for a while.
I don't have problems with spoons or tapping pencils. However I've always been extremly sensitive towards screaching noises (like a nail on a blackboard or a train that arrives) but I've had that before I even really listened to music at all.
@Rawbound
I have no issues whatsoever with that track.
A pretty interesting topic I must say, I really have no idea if it's because I have good hearing or because my hearing is ed.
Trance-MB
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Originally posted by Woony
I don't have problems with spoons or tapping pencils. However I've always been extremly sensitive towards screaching noises (like a nail on a blackboard or a train that arrives) but I've had that before I even really listened to music at all.
I had that too, but it got a lot less when I got older. I also was very sensitive for the noise polystyrene, Styrofoam, the white stuff in packaging, makes when you rubb over it.
I can't remember that I was extremely sensitive for cymbals.
