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Can you hear silent video?

Brad

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Check out this recent article on New Scientist

bit.ly/2GMeQp3

Anyone hear anything?
 

Blumlein 88

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Yes on the jump roping power towers. Really weird. Faint, but a drumming heavy sound whenever the tower lands. Was not expecting that even though I guess reading the article put the idea in my head. But definitely there. Real enough I thought maybe the video had a low level sound in it. So I turned off the amps on my sound rig and still heard the same thing.

Nothing on the others however.
 

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No, but my career was mostly in the electrical power industry. I couldn't connect with the jumping pylon. I thought I was distracted by a bout of tinnitus but it turned out to be a few cicadas tuning up outdoors.

Why do some individuals assume they are immune to psycho-acoustics? Their problem, not mine.
 

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Yes on the jump roping power towers. Really weird. Faint, but a drumming heavy sound whenever the tower lands.

Exactly the same for me. A deep almost subterranean metal sound, not unlike all those movie sounds of sinking ships hitting the ocean floor.

But we know what it should sound like- we've seen so many movies and heard so many sounds through our lives. Events are coupled with sounds and that one (if it were real) would be spectacular.
 

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Same. I find synaesthesia fascinating, lot's of musicians seem to have it, where as lot's of audiophiles seem to have tinnitus.

Lots of older rock musicians have tinnitus and/or hearing impairment. Happily, earplugs are accepted now. :)
 
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