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Colors and sound.

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Posted on August 7, 2024 at 04:40:07
Geoffkait
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A general extract from an article by Laszlo Darvas, the Editor of the Hungarian "Hi Fi Magazine".

Laszlo Darvas, the Editor of the Hungarian Hi Fi Magazine, knowing of Peter's discoveries that the printing on the label side of CDs affected the sound decided, during the early 1990s, to do some of his own investigations. He commissioned, from a Hungarian manufacturer of Compact Discs, ten identical (music-wise) Compact Discs, but with nine of them each printed in a different colour on the label side. Eight of the colours were Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Lilac, Yellow and Brown. The ninth disc had the normal production printing on it's label and the tenth disc was left completely clear (no paint at all).

After listening to all ten discs the Editor's conclusion were as follows :-

That every colour has it's own sound.

For example.

The disc printed Yellow was described as 'hurting the mind'.
The disc printed Brown was described as 'gritty', 'empty', only one degree better than Yellow.
The disc printed Lilac was described as sounding 'funny', 'murky', 'gritty' like the White One.
The Best sounding disc was the clear one, the one with no printing on at all.

 

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what are the results for a color-blind listener?, posted on August 7, 2024 at 07:56:34
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