<![endif] The Sound Blog Dispatches from Acoustic and Audio Engineering #masthead Skip to content Home Acoustic Absorbers & Diffusers Trevor Cox Book Radio biography #access #branding #header ← Wavefield synthesis: ‘souped-up’ surround sound Headphones vs Loudspeakers → #nav-above Posted on December 13, 2013 by Trevor Cox | 381 Comments .entry-meta Over the summer I wrote a blog post about people who like to detune music from standard concert pitch (440 Hz) to a lower tuning frequency (432 Hz) claiming it sounds better. Search for “432 hz” in YouTube and you’ll find plenty of examples where people have applied a pitch shifter to alter music ranging from a Mozart Requiem to Oasis’ Wonderwall. But some claim that there is more to this than just preference. There are several blogs that claim that using a normal concert tuning of 440 Hz is bad for...