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to my ears digital audio does not sound natural? something is wrong!

lf Digital audio is man made how can I expect the brain to recognize it as natural sounding?

lf I re-encode digital audio with the earths natural frequencies will the brain now recognize it as a natural source allowing the digital audio to harmonize with my brain creating an entirely new listening experience?

This might sound crazy however it sounds perfectly logical to me so i went to the park at 3am to record the frequencies of nature using the built in mic on my cheap mp3 player in wav 16/44 and uploaded the wav file to my pc and while the file from the park was playing on my windows media player i made a simple copy of a commercial digital album flac 16/44 on my desktop and here are the results using the same audio source.

commercial release flac 16/44 http://u.pc.cd/PmXctalK

commercial release  with earth frequencies http://u.pc.cd/7d7

lt may be the placebo effect and i'm hearing what i want to hear however i think the music is now in harmony with my ears?

guitarsam
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geoffkait
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Ack chew ally most commercially available music is a combination of analog AND digital. Which makes comparisons of the two basis techniques rather difficult if not impossible.
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charles1dad
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I agree that vague broad brush painting gets you no where. I've heard digital sourced audio systems sound very organic/natural and 'some' turntable front end systems sound etched and clinical. The converse has been heard  as well. The ultimate sound quality depends on multiple factors.  Most certainly quality of the individual components and how well the audio system is set up/implemented.

Charles

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phcollie
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OP, Precisely why I prefer Tubes in between my DAC and my SS amplifier. For a while I thought, like many others, that elimination of unnecessary components in the chain would be "pure". Why introduce noise right? My ears say otherwise and I much prefer the organic sound of digital music passing through some 6SN7 tubes. I will put on my flame retardant suit before I make this comment: I don’t like the snap,crackle pop of turntable music. To me, while it has a cool vintage sound, it is not natural. I like the dead quiet between digital tracks. What sound you like is all that matters.
soix
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I don’t really understand what you did from your description, but the first recording sounds like a typical flat, gray, lifeless MP3 track while the second sounds like a more dimensional, cleaner, clearer 16/44 recording.  Not even close in my book. 
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noble100
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     Let's not forget about the significant influence that biorhythms, the exact alignment of the planets and stars, psycho-acoustics, your horoscope, prayer, karma, brand and technology bias, serendipity, witch doctor choice, crossing your fingers and other superstitions obviously have on our systems' performance.

Tim
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