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Editor's Note: A number of people have asked
Ms. Edwards to clarify the issues involving digital vs. analog sound
in the field of BioAcoustics. Here is her response to the HealingMusic
e-group. For a report on the 2001 Seventh Annual BioAcoustics
Conference, shriconf7.html.
From: "Sharry Edwards" sound@frognet.net
www.soundhealthinc.com
To: HealingMusic@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HealingMusic] Brand new
Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2001, 11:08 PM
This is in response to your query about the
healing potential of CD's. CD's are digital. We have investigated
many low frequency claims (Sound Wave Energy being one) about
healing using CD's. This is more consequential for those using low
frequency sound claims than it is for music in the vocal range. The
following may help you decide. It is part of a presentation that was
delivered at our annual BioAcoustic Conference last week.
Sharry Edwards
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2001
Digital vs Analog as a Healing Potential
CD's are digital with a digital pulse. Live music [when using non
electrical instruments] is analog. Your singing is analog.
Bob Becker, MD makes a strong point in his book "Cross
Currents" that the body perceives and heals itself in ANALOG
fashion.
Analog is faithful through the ranges. Digital is faithful in the
vocal range but estimates (sometimes even simulates) highs and lows.
One of the most significant factors is that Analog has even
harmonics - like the body. Digital has uneven harmonics - like
invading pathogens.
Digital has a "digital pulse" that carries the information -
40K in older versions. [The mathematical
relationships of this frequency has been correlated with frequencies
associated with prostate cancer.] 94K is just beginning to be used
in newer versions.
Digital can be very accurate in the fundamental frequency but lacks
the purity of harmonic content which is actually what influences the
healing process. Analog can be very accurate but only over small
ranges unless digitally controlled.
Unfortunately, Digital is often chosen over analog for several
reasons:
- digital is less expensive to build and/or
duplicate
- digital is more accurate overall over a long range but the lows
and highs suffer.
In other words digital is cheap. There is a
bigger profit margin in digital.
We have attempted to make digital work with our technique and have
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build low frequency
digital generators. We abandoned the idea because of the lack of
response. Digital may give you some results but you will see far
greater results using Analog.
Three examples of digital versus analog
1) You and I talking on the telephone is digital. You and I talking
in person is analog. You still recognize my voice but something is
not quite the same.
2) Look at a watch that has second hands. You can see the seconds
sweep by. Look at a digital clock. From one minute to the next, you
don't know where in the minute you are. The same with digital
harmonics. Not only are they less accurate but many harmonics are
missing from digital signals.
3) It used to be that you could work with and tune in a radio
station because the dial was analog with continuous choices. Now you
tune in digitally in small increments that don't always allow you to
be dead on what you are trying to receive. Those small increments
are no longer an option. Such is digital.
An Analog system is designed to transmit the whole waveform from
input to output. Don't be fooled by those who say that once a signal
comes out of the speaker, it is analog again. Garbage in, Garbage
out.
Sing to yourself or moan or hum or whatever. It is the best sounds
for you at any given moment. If anyone is interested, I can post an
article that can help you learn a simple and easy technique to hear
and duplicate your own Signature Sounds. For those who want tapes or
CD's, Steve Halpern did Spectrum Suite and Crystal Suite in analog
format. He may be able to give you more options than these two.
Again, this is not about music (except the digital phase
information) but those tapes and CD's claiming to facilitate healing
using low frequencies.
The first rule for anyone interested in healing is " Do
no harm."
Sharry Edwards
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Thanks for visiting
Peace, Larry
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