bass materialism
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Searches That Brought You Here
• What is the frequency spectrum of a hip hop kick. This search brought you to my 2012 post on bass frequency-heavy Beats By Dre headphones. What I wrote still seems to apply to why people wear them: “How to explain the popularity of the Beats? One explanation is that our bass-heavy musics–hip hop and Continue reading
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On Creative Constraints: Inhabiting The Midrange In Music
A few years ago I bought a pair of monitors for my computer for working on music. Since limited desk space was a consideration, I chose a small size: the woofer speaker on each monitor is only about 4 inches in diameter. The sound of the monitors is uncommonly rich and powerful though, with a Continue reading
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On Bass Culture: Beats By Dr. Dre Headphones
If you look around the streets of New York you see a lot of folks wearing Beats by Dr. Dre, those giant black and red (or white and red) plastic over-the-ear headphones with their iconic red cables. The Beats headphones are the result of a collaboration between Monster, an audio cable manufacturing company, and Dr.Dre, Continue reading
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