![]() ![]() There have been various arguments that 432 Hz is superior to 440 Hz based on nature, mathematics, and religion. The modern tuning standard for music for the note, A4, is 440 Hz, or 440 vibrations per second, as in a violin's string. ![]() It's a given that in order for instruments to sound right when playing together, they should play the same tone when hitting the same musical note. That prompted me to give the 432 EVO a closer look. "There's a certain point of the key-most musicians use a key of A 440-and then there's a key you hear about sometimes where A equals to 432, which is much closer to C equals 256," Moffat said, "Which is sort of the natural center where it's a certain pitch where all of the harmonics perfectly align up, and it has a different kind of sound when C equals 256." Then, during my recent interview of digital audio icon Mike Moffat, he mentioned the pleasant musical effects of playing music tuned to 432 Hz on one of Schiit Audio's experimental gizmos (you can read that HERE). While today's 440 Hz standard, in comparison was very harsh, contributing to the chaos that we see all around us in modern society. He waxed on about how it produced a sublime, organic sound, in tune with nature leading to peacefulness and tranquility. Some years ago, a horn speaker artisan spoke effusively about how the ancients used to tune their instruments at 432 Hz. Gibbons famously asked in the cereal's 1970s commercials, "ever eat a pine tree?" Frankly, the sentiments undergirding this watery wall sounded to me about as whacked as Euell Gibbons, the eccentric naturalist and Grape-Nuts cereal spokesman. Nix Mavericks Beach-make that the world of music. Championing the superiority of 432 Hz tuned music, via connection with the rhythms of Mother Earth, over today's 440 Hz standard, the surging swell is gaining momentum. Somewhere off shore, just west of Pillar Point Harbor in northern California, the 432 EVO High-End reference music server is riding a mammoth wave at Mavericks Beach. ![]()
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