432 EVO

THE 440Hz vs 432Hz CONSPIRACY

TECHNOLOGY

432 EVO is an imaginative and inventive audiophile music server brand designed by Frederic Vanden Poel and founded in Belgium in 2013 by parent company Klinkt Beter who, intrigued by the 432Hz tuning, decided to create a better music server with tuning in mind…but why!?

LET’S BEGIN WITH SOME MUSIC THEORY:

If musical performances were to sound the same the world over, some standardization was required, so as early as 1885, the Music Commission of the Italian Government declared that all instruments and orchestras should use a tuning fork that vibrated at 440Hz, which was different from the original standard of 435Hz and the competing 432Hz used in France.

In 1953, a worldwide agreement was signed, declaring that middle “A” on the piano be forevermore tuned to exactly 440Hz; this frequency became the standard ISO-16 reference for tuning all musical instruments based on the chromatic scale. This tone standard is now universally accepted, which is why a piano in London sounds exactly the same as a piano in China.

Weirdly, no one can say for sure why this frequency was chosen in the first place and created opposition; to this argument many theorists claim that a more “natural” frequency for middle “A” is 438Hz, while others believe that the correct middle “A” is actually 432Hz (also known as Verdi’s A) because it has “a pure tone of math fundamental to nature” and is “mathematically consistent with the patterns of the universe, vibrating with Phi, the Golden Ratio.

They pointed to how this pitch can be connected to everything from nautilus shells to the works of the ancients, including the construction of the Great Pyramid; furthermore, 432Hz resonates with 8Hz (the Schumann Resonance), the documented fundamental electromagnetic “beat” of Earth.

Jump ahead a few years to the early development of the 432 EVO, when most streaming solutions were average sounding and not as good as their cost-no-object CD transports; discovering that 432Hz tuning improved the playback of all of their existing music files, it wasn't long before they also realised 432Hz profoundly improved playback performance on the most exclusive high-end systems.

The 432 EVO is the first music server in the world which can play both bit perfect as well as live conversion of digital music into the better sounding 432Hz tune. This has been confirmed by research from Maria Renold and several others, who found 90% of listeners preferred music played at 432Hz.

Three years after designing their first music server, the 432 EVO had won Best of Show at Munich 2017, and continues to win further awards across the globe, taking many reviewers by storm with its ability to swap between frequency tunes. Needless to say that the 432EVO sounds magnificent even in stock 440Hz through its high quality USB output.

All 432 EVO’s are Roon cores, enabling to unleash the already superb Roon software to an altogether new standard. Best of all, there is an audiophile music server from 432 EVO for every budget, as well as offering upgradability as your journey progresses.

WANT TO HEAR THE DIFFERENCE RIGHT AWAY?

Then try playing between the two clips below for a quick test of Coldplay’s “The scientist”, starting with the standard version tuned at 440Hz from their 2002 album, “A Rush of Blood to the Head”.

Now listen to this: it’s a version of the same song that’s been tuned down to the supposedly more natural frequency of 432Hz. Can you feel a difference? If so, then you ought to know more!

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