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Vortex HiFi: music, emotions and stress

Vortex HiFi

Music, emotions and stress

by Marco Kolks

An interview with Norbert Maurer about the

new Ground Optimizer from Vortex HiFi

listening experience has the new Ground Optimi -

Vortex HiFi 2nd Generation Zer

and was surprised at how big the difference

to the first generation. Basically reduce

the Ground Optimizer adorns low-frequency

Fields that negatively affect people

senior Through a special grounding technology

according to measurements by Vortex HiFi, the

device mass by up to 98 percent of

runs free. If you look at the

differences between the two Ground Opti -

mi zero generations, one reads a lot about

Communication in the body, from stress and

this combined with microscopic recording

men of red blood cells. At the same time he has

Developer, Norbert Maurer, assures that

nothing has changed in the technical structure

has. The differences are significant

solely on other, so-called information

attributed. How can such un-

ter divorced, without the most diverse emotions being triggered. The

signal has changed? can joy, sadness, relaxation, excitement -

tion, nostalgia or even euphoria. The -

HE: Mr. Maurer, you advertise on your own range of emotions, of course

Website with the slogan: "How from music not go hand in hand with one and the same music and

become emotions". How are yours also different from person to person.

Products from music Emotions? Music can stimulate the sympathetic part of the

Norbert Maurer: Through the uninfluenced - nomen nervous system with the distribution

te perception of music. As know- stimulate by norepinephrine and adrenaline

scientific investigations of recent times and make people euphoric. The

clearly show, music that un - means, will create positive stress. The body

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then activates a lot of energy. Energy that brings us and also when listening to music

activities is available. But it can be poured out. A special hormone is

the opposite also happen. Relaxing the oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone that

or soothing music can help relieve stress during social interaction and bonding.

build from and the autonomic nervous system is poured. It can also when listening to

to calm down. This music can be released and help breathing music

and slowing down the heartbeat and creating a deeper emotional connection to the music

Release neurotransmitters like Oxy - or build up to other listeners. Nor -

trigger to cin. adrenaline is a neurotransmitter that

HE: How do these feelings arise? Stress reactions is released and this

Norbert Maurer: Listening to music can help draw attention and

Various messenger substances are used in the brain to increase alertness. last but not least

such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, noradre - are the endorphins. endorphins

na lin and endorphins released. These are endogenous pain relievers that also

Messenger substances play an important role in being released when listening to music

Regulation of emotions and in the case of alder - ability. They have a pain-relieving effect and

use of reward. Above all, dopamine becomes exciting. For this reason, music

trembling while listening to pleasant music, successful in pain therapy

tet and stands with the reward system of a set.

brain connection. The distribution of HE: The studies show that

Dopamine triggers positive feelings like joy and applies to music listeners or just musicians?

out of luck. Serotonin is associated with relaxation Norbert Maurer: Basically that applies

and mood regulation - for music listeners and musicians. the striatum

The striatum is the first

Switching point of

basal ganglia and there

input to processing

certain projections.

The receipt of this

projections into that

striatum is biochemical

mixed

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is activated for example (Note d. Red.: The their acoustic characteristics of music

This is the entrance area of ​​the basal ganglia are specialized.

Stri atum, also known as striped body But the prefrontal cortex is also stimulated

is. This part of the brain is connected to the motor mulated. This is a cerebral

networked nerve tracts and is the first gi on responsible for a variety of cognitive functions

te switching point for the interconnection more targeted such as memory, attention,

movements. degeneration of the striatum divorce finding and emotional control

can be part of Parkinson's or Cho - responsible is. Because hearing is a very active pro

rea Huntington occur and have an impact process, which is based on experience

mostly as either hypo- or hyperkinesis is accessed and acoustic situations analyzed

.). The striatum is often activated when music must be played at all

People listen to music that is perceived with positive concrete and differentiated

Emotions are connected, and there seems to be one, the prefrontal cortex is one

important role in the formation of Mu - important brain region. The entire acoustic

sik enjoyment and the desire for music to localization via tone colors (HRTF) and

play. Maybe that's why non- other complex structures that are necessary for the development

musicians like air guitar (Note d. Red.: Nor- are responsible for remote localization, ba -

Bert Maurer laughs.). But joking aside, many rely on experience and analysis.

emotional responses are, according to knowledge- The prefrontal cortex is frequently

equal to scientific studies. fourth, when people listen to music that with

HE: In addition to the pure hearing system, positive emotions are connected. A wide-

So there are other areas involved, for example the brain system, which is activated by music

play in the brain. is the limbic system. the limbic

Norbert Maurer: Not only the central system is a network of brain regions,

Nervous system with different brain regions - this plays an important role in processing

nen is involved, but also other parts of emotions and the formation of emotional

of the nervous system. I already mentioned playing memories. The limbic system

Autonomic nervous system includes structures such as the hippocampus, which include the heartbeat

and respiratory regulation. So we already have the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, the

more than ten years ago a computer system all played a role in processing musical

bought for heart rate analysis, play our shear emotions. have the striatum

Heart rate variability ECG. With that we can I already mentioned. The striatum is one

see if someone is relaxed or not. brain region involved in the processing of be-

But there are also many brain regions involved, and motivation. The stria -

lit. Above all, of course, the auditory cortex. Hearing is often activated when people mu-

cor tex is the primary brain region responsible for hearing for those associated with positive emotions

Processing of acoustic information is related to, and it seems to play an important role

is constant. The auditory cortex is involved in various ways in the emergence of enjoying music and how

divided into regions that are said to be processing, the desire to play music

of pitch, rhythm, volume and an - len.

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HE: We know that and why music is taken more than usual. That is fatal for the music -

emotions generated. But how can pre-listening help, because the central ability and on-

tex HiFi products that music is the conveying of music

Emotions become or why arise oh - emotions, which of course one recognized beforehand

ne Vortex HiFi products from music must have less.

or other emotions? HE: Let's go one step further.

Norbert Maurer: I would like that What does it mean for our musical sensitivity

show systematically. To the together - when we're stressed?

to understand it makes sense if we Norbert Maurer: Even if the scientific

first look at stress and how it unsensual research mainly there -

re emotions changed. Also in - busy with how music affects stress,

Interesting scientific studies - are there also studies that deal with the

gen. So negative emotions are dealt with by reversed causality, ie how

stress amplified. Stress leads to the fact that ne - stress influences music perception.

ga tive emotions such as fear, frustration, anger A work from 2017 with the

and sadness are increased. Stress can title "Stress and music: A systematic review

also lead to us being overwhelmed by recent research" examined the influence

feel and have difficulty coping - from stress to the perception of music

deal with emerging situations. On the contrary - and found out, among other things, that stress

In addition, stress has a negative effect on the perception of music

ve emotions out. Stress conditions that we can by giving attention and that

less positive feelings like joy, excitement - memory impaired. you remember

ment or relaxation. This to the prefrontal cortex, whose importance

can make us feel depressed like I mentioned earlier. Also the able-

or feeling depressed and having difficulty accepting the emotional aspects of music

Having abilities to motivate us or recognize and evaluate things is overcome by stress

to enjoy that normally interferes with our fun. That was to be expected

do, such as B. listening to music. ten if you use the above-mentioned for -

So stress leads to a narrowing of the research results to stress and emotions

spectrum of emotions with a shift. This is fatal for music

from positive to negative feelings. because, in my opinion, that is the central

As we all know, emotions are a super function of listening to music. emotions

portable. We have antennae for the emotio - to convey.

other and those emotions are over- Another study from 2014

portable. Stress now causes us to perceive emo- entitled "Stress effects on music-

perception or interpretation" examined the influence of stress on

For example, we can use negative emotes - people's perception of music

Openly perceive in other people, with and without musical training. The

where there are none, or we can use our own results showed that stress is the ability

assign emotions as stronger or different truth, musical details and subtleties

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recognize and process, impaired. our concept is not about the hi-fi

That's exactly what I experience every day. musical system, but about the stress that

Details disappear when the listener is subjected to high levels of stress. The source is playing

Scope. it doesn't matter.

Another study was published in 2013 HE: Now we are with the music. stress is

titled "Stress and Music Preference". They are therefore a decisive factor in the

examined the connection between taking music, also on the emotional

stress and music preference. The results len level. But how does Vortex HiFi help stress

here showed that stressed people tend to turn off as a limiting factor?

prefer music styles that are considered soothing Norbert Maurer: Each of our products

Feeling calm or relaxing has two purposes. 1. to declutter and 2. to

such as New Age music. Also relieve stress. We call that AIO, what for

I experience again and again, especially in the high All in One. The combination of these

end area. Because the functions are always the same in all products

Plates put on, which in case of doubt simply exist. Vortex HiFi only exists because we

are knitted. Complex works from which music listeners want to de-stress. That drives

Rock or classic come to us and we develop new ones year after year

plex and annoying on most systems. Tools to eliminate problems that arise in the mo -

Complex music will therefore appear at trade fairs held by households and music

Played less and stressed less at home. In doing so, we provide our

heard or stopped after a short time. Hö - ken always in question and are constantly

sit in front of them with their iPads on their laps in search of new technologies. We

of the system and listening to a "highlight" are not biased. The skill

the other - from various classic techniques and knowledge from building bio -

schen works mind you. Many people are logic and environmental medicine. The skill

are no longer able to be a single power filter or shields or

classic work their full attention also techniques from quantum medicine and

to give. I could send a letter to another discipline. The main thing is that it works.

Read Vortex HiFi dealer who be - But for some problems there was nowhere

writes. He was happy with how he was using un - a solution, just like the Ground Optimizer.

Here we had to think in a completely new way, because the

for the first time in years, a completely simple grounding via cables has advantages,

But listening to a classic CD from start to finish also has significant disadvantages. thats why

and not just individual passages. For example, he came up with the "grounding" via a galvanized

a flow (the brain is challenged, but a cal separating element according to building biology

not overwhelmed) and listened deep into the viewpoints frequency selectively, that's why

Night. Incidentally, the Ground Optimizer in his listening room was rather expensive. We

no filters have been installed, only one have produced several quality classes,

Floor below, where he measured the largest so that practically everyone can get a Ground Opti -

detected disturbances on the power line. At mi zer can afford and from the enormous benefits

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share a clean mass benefits. And de re, with a slightly different vibration -

HE: Listening experience has patterns for a long time, but are biologically / acoustically

Time with your product Ground Optimizer is extremely relevant. We once

busy and talked about the positive effect of a switched iPad on our device feet -

written the sound. But what about the places and two rooms away listening to music.

new MKII models different? In doing so, we were able to

Norbert Maurer: The technical design ren whether the iPad was lying directly on the table or

of the Ground Optimizer for field reduction, on the feet. That's exactly the phenomenon.

al so measures of the classic Baubiolo - The field that was radiated from the iPad,

gie, we can not improve. We didn't go away, it was created by the other

but in recent years a lot about Feldmo - mechanical vibration also electrically on -

du la tion learned in the sense of information. Since - ders modulated. No measuring device in the world can

at we have worked intensively with the ideas of measuring these differences. field strength and

explored quantum medicine. Frequency spectrum are entirely for gauges

The challenge was making the identical.

Products through these new ideas and tech HE: Then how do you measure?

to systematically introduce and Norbert Maurer: We don't just measure

mend Of course we can hear, but un - the cause, i.e. the field, but the we -

s re products have the problem of being first made on humans. Ever since we dealt with fields

deterioration, ie tonally leads to every change (electrosmog), we know of

changing the configuration temporarily to Dr. Magda Havas that practically any kind of

a worse sound. In ex - electrosmog, this can lead to a clumping of red blood -

trem case take days. So it's very spongy. This is called the money rol -

rig to impossible to develop len- or rouleaux effect. When we start-

just rely on hearing. We need to understand the connection between

to represent something like reliable early indicators - smog and the roulette effect -

an effect on humans. Physi - de always accused us that there are many primal -

there are no alkaline measuring methods here. There are things for the roulette effect and there aren't

Our building biology measuring devices only measure electrosmog. That's right. It's ex-

state-of-the-art, these pe rimental can challenge this ef -

Eliminate changes to the interfering field sources. Electrosmog occurs namely

basically not dissolved. Humans also filter out geopathogenic living spaces, in

or better isolated disturbances from the environment - which the disturbances on completely different physical

world, the measuring devices simply cannot be based on filical quantities. But what

can tern. And that, although we're not always the same, is stress. Our HRV Mes -

exactly know how such a biologically relevant sun genes were able to confirm this. It's fine

disorder looks like. Our level of knowledge changes rather a chemical (hormones) and less

is constantly changing here. We are of many na - a physical effect (fields) that goes to

natural and unnatural fields overturned. So the red ones withdrew

that do not affect us biologically. blood cells together even then,

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Easily recognizable under a microscope: Rouleaux

Recognizing differences in stress levels in the blood.

Effect.

So we had an early indicator that

how well our products relieve stress.

when the blood has already left the body and In this way we can

taken from the physical exposure tenphysical concept and its effect

was and no longer exposed to a field wa - assess for stress. If such a prin -

This and other effects that zip works too far here, we can take the time

lead speak for this thesis. Since we men to check it acoustically. We work

high-resolution video recordings of the blood - also with other test methods such as the Ki -

did rehearsals, we could use this ne si o lo gy or the strength and coordination -

Behaves very well in both directions - human test. But a blood test is

watch. So once when clumping - the clearest.

process and once during the de-clumping process - The result of our lengthy for -

cess. Completely different physical - is a highly optimized system from

cal stimuli to one and the same result - information (vibrational patterns) that si -

not lead. After more than 600 microscopic cherlich in every human being a large

studies, we were also able to determine the gradual influence on the stress level and the disruptive

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hearing. We call our pre - more difficult to correct the indirect sound

mi order system sigma technique, the sum al - to arrange. Otherwise the timbres of the

ler insights. You played two technical instruments incorrectly.

identical (seen from the point of view of building biology) Ground A basic statement of the perception

Opti mizer tested the blue GO 2 MKII psychology is that man does not

and the green GO 3 MKII. The difference sound with his sense of hearing as precisely as possible

I think it's big for you too. That is the want to record, but the cause of the

aural proof that it works. Al - must recognize sound. What's behind

le three GO's are also due to our new sound? That means sound analysis. The

first findings of quantum medicine have evolved to make food better sense

been expanded. The entire GO series is to find enemies and us as food

sort of like a ground optimizer on steroids. see to get out of the way. So it is

HE: So there seems to be a way, not important, to pick up the sound perfectly-

with Vortex HiFi products, but rather to understand who is doing the

more correct access with less stress to intoxicate and then the organi -

find. But why is the sound so different? prepare for fight or flight.

Why do I feel the timbres of the In - There is a corresponding acoustic

instruments correct? Why is the listening room stimulus released a hormone. In the

no longer so reverberant - even when speaking? Fight or flight case, adrenaline is released

Why is the transparency clearer or poured to activate energy reserves.

why don't the basses boom like that anymore, in order to determine the location of a sound source -

if the acoustics are the same? What does this agree with is an accurate analysis of the sound

emotions to do? necessary. In our case for two instruments

Norbert Maurer: With emotions directly mente, the violin and the trumpet. And the

nothing but with stress and its effects - does not work well under stress. it's coming

gen. I do not know of any scientific un - to a wrong assignment of sound components -

Researchers are investigating, but one could learn from the instruments. You have to

what has been said here and from the knowledge - can concentrate. But stress means

out of the psychoacoustics intelligently - less concentration. The violin gets

ten. In workshops I always ask what is a little “trumpet” and the trumpet a

hears when a violin and a trumpet in the bit "violin" or the spatial sound

play room? I often get irritated mixed with the direct sound. So can

looks, but then someone suddenly dares to hear more or less reverberation -

answer that one can be a violin and a ren. This can be a signal change

hear the trumpet. For us, a matter of course - not cause a hi-fi component.

ability. But why don't you hear a "Gei - If you look at the reverberation physically, like this

Pete"? You don't hear a sound mix, but a hi-fi component, a foot or even

then two separate patterns. A violin and a cable the reverberation neither disappear

a trumpet. Your brain has yet to have two patterns conjured up. But we hear

he know and the direct sound and what a lot these se differences. A wrong / bad

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Interpretation of the sound and the suppression

by the human auditory system

but that can easily change.

Regarding changes in the bass: If a

Bass rattles (e.g.: high level), he wants

Listeners certainly don't hear that. He concentrated

steps on the instrument and there comes

the cocktail party effect comes into play again. al-

Everything you focus on gets through

enhances the cocktail party effect and everything

what you don't want to hear is toned down.

Since the position of the speaker is different from

the virtual position of the instruments

separates, the distortion of the loudspeaker

chers located differently and then suppressed.

This also applies to room modes and reverb! This

everything depends of course on a correct and

powerful analysis of the sound location.

However, this is highly dependent on stress.

This means that when we are more stressed, we get more

hear distortions (because we don't

press). At the same time, timbres

are distorted, spatial information

are lost and the transparency and

Hall sensation suffers. Nothing like this has ever happened

been scientifically examined, but is

reality in hi-fi.

In practice, that's for everyone who is our

uses products systematically, slightly

enforceable. The differences are now

Yes very big.

HE: Thank you for the interview.

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