The Anstendig Institute

New for 2009

•  Meditation:   a world-wide misunderstanding, to which The Anstendig Institute would 
  like to direct our reader's attention
  
  
• The Crucial Fault With The Top Chef Judging
  
  
• Teaching Exact English

The Economic Crash: Why Most Solutions Will Fail

• The Real Economic Problem

  •    The Reason for the Current Economic Crisis or The Protective Patent

Possibly of interest on Mark Anstendig's personal site:

• The Fallacy About Financial “Systems” That Have Failed

New for 2008

•  Sound Quality, TV, and Computer Technology, 2008

•    The Most Important Concept to Comprehend (The Preface to "The Body As Machine")

•    The Body As Machine (revised version) our most important paper

•    Posture and Walking or The Basic Make Me A Supermodel Flaws, And a Lot More

Third Party Confirmation of Deterioration of Sound Reproduction, Rolling Stone Magazine,

• Part I, our commentary
• Part II, the Rolling Stone Magazine article

New for 2007

• The Seating, Laptop, Posture Disaster
• The Computer Monitor/Display Resolution Disaster
• The Absolute State of the Art in Audio, 2007
  or The Sao Win Cartridge Gets Even Better
• Will the World’s Music Archives Be Lost? or
  A Crisis Worse Than the Film Archive Crisis, or
  The Predicament of the World’s Great Serious Recording Archives
• The Computer Operating System Mess
  The Great Roadblocks to the World's Crucial Computing
• Big Mistake in Shoe Design

New for 2006

• The Disaster in Modern Film, TV and Video
  Our Unnatural Wide-Screen Format

• “Program EQ”, the Final, Most Important Stage in Sound Reproduction or                                 
  The Need to Equalize the Sound, While Listening, to Establish Correct Original Timbre in Recording Playback.

• The Differentiation Between Classical and Street Music

New for 2005

• Acoustics
  • The Neglected Prerequisite of Concert Hall Design
  • The State of the Art in Sound Reproduction, 2005: The Sao Win SMC 10 Type 4

New

Our Musical Recommendations (a whole new division of this site)

• The Results of Our Over Three Decades of Listening
• The Most Magnificent Thing in the World

Vibrations: Natural and Mechanical

• Why and how vibrations affect us
• The Body as Machine                                       
• Our Bodies are Affected by the Vibrational Quality of Our Environment 
• The control and use of vibrations in our daily life       
• Improving the Quality of the Vibrational Influences in your Life
• The Crucial Role of the Quality of the Musical Experiences in our Lives  Poster
• Relaxation Techniques
• Mind and Music (written by Mitchell A. Cotter)
• The Importance of Improving the Deplorable Quality of American Television Newly Posted
• "Home Theater": Facts and Fallacies
• The Problems of Automatic Fine Tuning (AFT) in TV and Video Recorders
• The Real Automobile Industry Disaster
• Euthanasia: the Difference Between Human and Animal Medicine

Photography

• The Messraster and why no available camera can focus focal point exact*
• Nikon letter of intent to manufacture Messraster
• Why No Camera Can Focus
• Focusing Tests                                               Newly Posted
• The Flaw in All Auto-Focusing Cameras: the Messraster Focal Point Exact Screen
• Why the Most Important Invention in Photography Is Not Available
  
• Photography-as-art is focus
• The Flawed State in Photography as Art and Documentation
• A Calamity in the World of Art (Judging Artworks by Slide Reproductions)
• Messraster photos for those who have asked what a Messraster focusing device looks like
  • The 9 x 12 cm Messraster in the Linhof back                   New
  • 9 x 12 cm Messraster in the ground glass frame of a Linhof back, which is mounted in an
    Ilko 5 x 7 Camera back                                        New

* Some new TTL autofocusing cameras can focus exactly on limited subject areas, but not on most subjects and not in a practical manner.

Sound Reproduction

• Stereo as a distraction to the listening experience of music
• Stereo: a Misunderstanding
• The need for equalization controls in all sound reproduction
• Sound Equalization in Relation to the Way We Perceive Sound
• The Massing of Overtones in Sound Reproduction
• A New Way to Hear (learn how to equalize your sound system)
• The Deterioration of the Quality of Music Making Due to the Deficiencies of Recording Sound
• The importance of the pickup cartridge in LP playback
• The Means to Revive the Quality of Music in Our Lives
• The Necessity for a Re-evaluation of All Record Criticism
• The missing information in all CD recordings
• The Truth About CD and Digital
• Digital Recordings: a Tragedy Unrivaled in the History of Art
• Our Loss of Emotional Richness Due to Bad Sound Reproduction
• The shortcomings in available recording media
• The Faults of Recording Media
• Basic Problems of Sound Reproduction That Apply to Digital and Analog
• Background Noise in Video Hi-Fi (VCRs)
• The Audio, Video, and Computer Cable Controversy
• Hearing problems due to lack of sound equalization in sound reproduction
• Hearing Impairment Due to Noise and Loud Sound Reproduction
• Headphones
• Hearing Loss from Listening With Headphones
• Hearing aids
• The Mistake In Hearing Aid Design

The Psychology of Hearing

• Our conditioning to sound and sound quality
• Hearing: Our Conditioned Responses to Music
• Hearing as information in--take and as aural experience
• Hearing: the Informational and the Experiential
• Using listening to music to improve concentration
• Hearing: the Problems of Concentration
• The predominance of visual (sight) oriented perspectives in musical (sound) oriented experiences
• The Misapplication of Visual Criteria in Hearing
• Misunderstanding in Sensory Comparisons
• AB Testing, A Misapplication of Visual Criteria in Audio

Acoustics

• What are acoustical properties
• Concert Hall Acoustics
• An Addendum to Concert Hall Acoustics
• Sound reproduction's influence on acoustical quality
• The Disaster in Modern Concert Hall Acoustics
• Davies Hall acoustics
• An Acoustic Anomaly                            Newly Posted
• The Organ of Davies Hall
• How to Correct the Acoustics of Davies Hall   Newly Posted
• Opera House Acoustics
• The San Francisco Opera House Renovation

About The Anstendig Institute

• The Anstendig Institute
• Methods and Procedures of the Anstendig Institute
• How The Anstendig Institute Benefits the Public   Newly Posted
• The Anstendig Institute's Contribution to Music in San Francisco  Newly Posted

Links to posters for many of The Anstendig Institute papers listed above

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415-775-3575,
   
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               911 Fulton St.
               San Francisco, CA 94117

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