On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:04 +0200, JÃrn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > And your brain ;). > > I'm not sure if it's a myth or true, it's said that stroboscope effects > > can cause epileptic shocks even for averaged people. (Hopefully this > > won't cause a discussion as the one about 'time'. ;) > > A vertically frequency of 60 Hz won't cause an epileptic shock, but at > > least effect your well-being. > > have you considered getting a tft display and retiring your tube monitor? Yes, I tend to do music and not to do graphics for print media, so - playing a single coil guitar, I suspect less electric smog by a display - more comfort, regarding to minimum space requirements, since I don't have a studio anymore, just a divided room in a small flat Contra - the money from the last job was eaten by the RME HDSPe AIO + ADAT + KORG nano + some other things I need, perhaps I've got a new job tomorrow, perhaps until the year after next ;). Not for me, but others should test if they are comfortable with the colours, when they work for art print. > the energy savings will very likely balance the cost within a year, plus > you get lots of extra desk real estate. and no stroboscope, ever. > and if you don't rely on excellent wide-gamut color reproduction, even > the cheapest tfts should be sufficient. Correct, for me the cheapest display would be an advantage at the moment, but I know lot of artists who dropped their displays and use their old monitors again. > when i was using crts, i found i also needed at least 85hz to be > comfortable, particularly in the office, where you'd be turning your > head often and then see the strobing trail in the corner of the eye - > very confusing. for the same reason, i still don't like DLP projectors - > i don't see rainbows when looking straight on, but as soon as the head > moves, i feel like i just popped a handful of mushrooms. To teach children how music instruments work, it might be nice to plug a string on the concert guitar in front of a monitor. Doing this the stroboscope is useful :). Yes, IIRC I also need more than 75 Hz, because moving the head etc. could cause sense of the flicker. 90 Hz are ok for me and perhaps 80 or 85 too, I don't know. That reminds me of [avoid name-dropping for now and hopefully for the future too, at least somebody who knows how to connect speakers] who told me that he was at a party and a solo entertainer connected the left and right speakers out-of-phase. He walked along the danceflour and was shocked when at some point the phasing hit him by blitz. I guess people who aren't experts guess that such a blitz is caused by oregano or something similar. Regards, Ralf PS: I'm living at the border to the Netherlands. Oregano soon will only be sold to Dutchmen who are members of an Oregano-Club, otherwise even Dutchmen needs to eat the Pizza without oregano. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
