A new study has concluded that musical training gives listeners better frequency selection abilities, particularly at higher frequencies. The study titled ‘Psychophysical auditory filter estimates reveal sharper cochlear tuning in musicians’ (J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 136, EL33 (2014);) suggested that “Increased cochlear tuning (i.e., auditory filter resolution) in musicians would help explain their enhanced pitch
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Neil Young Still Hates Digital Music
Well sort of. He’s been ranting a bit again recently. He’s always hated MP3 and CD as media. He was a big proponent of DVD-A (96kHz, 24 bit) and now claims he was working on another format with Steve Jobs to return to the actual potential of digital music. It’s true that a lot of
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