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Anaxilus

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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2015, 05:54:42 PM »
Really, the only time music ever slowed down for me was using a turntable that wasn't quartz locked or the pitch/tempo was altered. For how I listen and experience audio, the music always pretty much keeps its recorded tempo IME.
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2015, 06:02:24 PM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on July 29, 2015, 05:54:42 PM
Really, the only time music ever slowed down for me was using a turntable that wasn't quartz locked or the pitch/tempo was altered. For how I listen and experience audio, the music always pretty much keeps its recorded tempo IME.

Actually this is a funny point, but true for me too.  I have had a lot of experiences where time feels like it speeds up or slows down, but I never get that with music.
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2015, 06:57:42 PM »
I've had times I thought my (digital) music sounded like it was a slower tempo (like the turntable comparison), but I figured it was some minor delusion.  I assume it's technically impossible.
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2015, 07:11:29 PM »
My experiences are the same as Anax's .. unless I play with the pitch control of course.
Never had that with music, I do get other effects when coming 'in the zone' but can get in 'the zone' with a Sansa Fuze + KSC75 equeally well.

The time slowing down thing I only experienced once.
Riding a moped I crashed into a dog at full speed (jumped out of a shrubbery, did not see it)
Before one asks... the dog was quite big and was O.K. (surprisingly)
Falling to the ground went very fast acc to the dogs owner but seemed to take ages and strangely enough heard my Jiu Jitsu teacher 'coach' me how to break my fall.
You know... one arm in, make an arch... roll ... slam your arm on the mat (was the road here) and roll through and stand up.
This all passed very slowly as if I had lots of time.

The dogs owner was surprised as he saw me smacking to the ground, roll and stand on my feet.
No damage... except the moped.
The dog ran away but later came back to the owner.
After a chat to see if all were allright we went our own way again.

Never experienced time slowing down after that (fortunately)
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2015, 08:03:32 PM »
I have experienced a living-in-slow-motion effect that I guess is similar to what Solderdude described on a bicycle several times, but not while listening to music.

"Music slowing down" reminds me of a different thing I have noticed when moving between rigs that are far apart in sound quality.  Particularly with bass, the better rigs seem to have more separation between notes, that is, the attacks of the sequence of notes match up between the two systems, but the notes decay faster on the good one so that there seems to be a longer time between the notes, giving the impression of the music slowing down.  Well, slowing down after a fashion, something completely different to playing a 45 at 33rpm...
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2015, 08:16:49 PM »
Music is slower when I'm wide awake and faster when I'm getting tired. Perceptively, of course. You might have just been super hyped for getting to listen to whatever it was you listened to.
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2015, 08:56:48 PM »
Maybe it is related to the system/dac's ability to render the decay/sustain/release portion of the sound envelope which gives the brain more time/information to process. I find that Sigma Delta dacs & Class D amps usually omits(portions of it) away the decay/sustain/release portion of the music thus sounding "faster" but at the expense of natural timbre.

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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2015, 09:31:13 PM »
Personally, I only ever get the "time slowing down" sensation under extreme stress.

Probably the most vivid experience was once when I was too distracted while I was driving, almost ran a red light, and narrowly avoided an accident after slamming on the brakes.  I actually have this odd memory of time running backwards for some reason.
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2015, 10:59:29 PM »
My most vivid recollection of time dilation didn't involve a car crash, but a girl and a slow song...
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Re: "music slowing down" phenomenon...
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2015, 11:29:49 PM »
Quote from: Armaegis on July 29, 2015, 10:59:29 PM
My most vivid recollection of time dilation didn't involve a car crash, but a girl and a slow song...

...and an Adam's apple. ;D
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