The binaural recordings are more than a little spooky. Even knowing before hand that they were going to play the sound of someone knocking on doors I had to fight the temptation to turn and look at sho was knocking on the desk next to me.
Also, extremely cool!
Different strokes, I suppose.
Seems weird from the outside, but the feeling is really quite nice, and very relaxing. The pseudoscientific name is annoying though.
Even when I replay it I get freaked out.
Is it just me, or does the left channel id clip have quite a different equalisation/sound to the right one?
Also, regarding the centre/twisted test clips - these are encoded as mp3 (for playing - the downloads are wav). Mp3s often encode stereo by encoding the average of the two channels and the difference between the two channels, with a lower bit rate. If one channel is inverted, then the average of the two channels will be zero, so all the sound information is encoded in the lower bit rate difference, which would give it a lower quality. Something to be aware of when making test clips like this.