Mark Levinson Has Saved Me And My MUSIC!!

Interesting video. Silly but interesting. There is no basis for saying that the analog waveform coming out of your DAC is stairstepped or "tic tic tic." But I can easily believe that processing the musical file by adding reverb and EQ can affect the listener's emotions. It would be an interesting research project to find out if certain recording techniques correlated with measurable emotions in the listener.

I use a processor in my playback chain (BSG QOL) that adds depth and focus and I would bet that my emotional state is better when I use it than when I don't. I don't have any issue with Levinson's technique to improve the sound of recordings, I just wish he didn't rely on technobabble and new age claims of improving one's health.

One more thing. I have a pretty good library of LPs and CDs and I play both regularly. I have never been able to perceive vinyl to be inherently superior to digital. At least on my system, the SQ is dependent on the recording rather than the format. I suspect that if you used Levinson's real time processor on a vinyl record it would have the same listener effect as for digital.

Interesting video. Silly but interesting. There is no basis for saying that the analog waveform coming out of your DAC is stairstepped or "tic tic tic." But I can easily believe that processing the musical file by adding reverb and EQ can affect the listener’s emotions. It would be an interesting research project to find out if certain recording techniques correlated with measurable emotions in the listener.

There is a lot of unexplained (not easily quantifiable) phenomena w.r.t music and its impact on the human system ...For example, in classical east Indian music, there are raags separated for different times of the day as they are said to affect the body’s bio rythms differently. If you listen to a evening raag in the morning, it can make you physically uncomfortable (unexplainable). I have experienced this myself. Mark himself has dabbled with classical east Indian instruments for a while, he’s a sarod player...There are similar things discussed in Chinese tradition (other old cultures) as well. There is only so much that can be said about some experiential truths before it starts to sound nonsensical. He’s done some pilot study to try and demonstrate some impact on human health. I don’t know what the software does, but, I don’t believe or disbelieve anything.

I am sure it will all seem like hogwash for all the self proclaimed sophisticated modern scientists scratching the surface with their ’modern science’. Apparently, their ancestors were all real dumb for tens of thousands of years, except for them...(okie...dokie).

How is MQA doing it for you? This video is exactly the same BS.

If you like, wonderful, but don’t push the nonsense that is this video. I mean this guy wrote a book about women’s ...., with his ex-wife.