Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Questions-tp4022097p4022106.html

> I remember catherine from the yahoo site mentioned
> acoustic effects.  Its been awhile but she basically
> said there were those who could be effected, talking on
> their landline phones, if they were talking to someone else
> who was on a  cell phone.

Yes, that's true -- people with ES can be sensitive to all
sorts of things that aren't necessarily what we think of
as being "EMF".  

I have an MP3 player, and I discovered that if I encoded
my music using one method, it would bother me.  However,
if I encoded the same music using another method, it
did not bother me.  I think someone once labelled this
phenomenon as "aural fatigue", and is something that
can happen when you listen to compressed music.

And if anyone is interested in the details for my
particular case, I was bothered by variable-bit-rate
encoding (VBR), but NOT bothered by constant-bit-rate
encoding or average-bit-rate encoding (ABR).

Of course, I think most of the music that people download
from iTunes, Amazon, etc. is VBR, which is the kind that
I found to be the most bothersome!

Marc