The maker of the Akira anime soundtrack has some goofy ideas about "Hypersound"

[repoman]

Strange stuff and hard to read with the white on black. I like the the soundtrack a lot, but I doubt his claims very much. I bet the translation is pretty good from the Japanese. It is just a lot of woo.

However, there may be some aspect of the audio remastering of the BD (Blu-ray Disk) of Akira that makes it much better to listen to - I wonder if having more of the high inaudible frequencies somehow effects the lower audible ones by some type of resonance. I just don't buy the health claims.

http://www.yamashirogumi.gr.jp/akira-e/sankou/

http://www.yamashirogumi.gr.jp/akira-e/sankou/hypersonic1_e.html

http://www.yamashirogumi.gr.jp/akira-e/sankou/hypersonic2_e.html

 

[DolphinDynasty]

Man, I love that soundtrack, an the dystopian dangers of a society that punishes the poor for being poor. But the composer sounds like he smoked something he probably should have stayed away from while doing the re-mastering. Sounds like that idea out of pseudoscience history where people once believed that dialogue when spoken near a pottery wheel was being recorded, which of course ended up being proven false because sound waves when coming from living beings cannot create imprints in solid matter when at the decibal level of a human generated vocal pitch range. I suppose there's an element of bias to consider too, in that many who listen to the Akira OST already lie the music, so I don't thin I'd trust even myself at being able to objectively analyze the re-mastered version. :/

 

[PyramidHead]

It doesn't matter whether DVD or BluRay encoding is used, the best speakers money can buy won't reproduce any frequencies above (at most) 45kHz. So this is all moot for the end listener.

 

[Learner]

My friend who works with sound having the latest digital gear will always connect the play back through an analogue system..the older the better according to him. The idea goes that there is something about analogue circuitry ,vinyl or tape - (although being more restricted in frequency range in comparison)- seems to sound more 'pleasing' to the ears. Not sure what health claim can be attached in this regard but I'm sure the pleasure of listening does something good.

 

[DolphinDynasty]

I once read a study that compared the tone from a vinyl recording to the tone from a CD and it concluded that as long as the vinyl's in near mint condition the quality of the vibrations was actually higher than what came from the CD. But it makes me wonder if a person who has synesthesia might say if testing the quality difference between mint vinyl recording and CD recording because they experience sound through things like color or sensation coupled with the actual tones they hear.