432 hz
a clean 432 hz tone, generated as it plays, over ocean and a slow breath.
This is a sine tone at 432 Hz — not a recording of one, but the frequency itself, produced by your browser as you listen. Because nothing is being played back, there is no file to loop and no seam to hear, however long you leave it.
432 Hz is traditionally associated with a warmer, more natural tuning than the 440 Hz standard, and a lot of people describe it as gentler to sit with. That is where the honest version of the claim stops. There is no good evidence that one frequency does something to the body that a neighbouring one does not, and we would rather say so than sell you a number.
What is doing real work on this page is underneath the tone: the breath. The orb is paced at five and a half seconds in and five and a half out, and breathing at roughly that rate has a measurable, well-studied effect on the nervous system. If you only follow one thing here, follow the orb.
So treat the tone as a surface to rest attention on. Some people find a single steady pitch easier to stay with than music, which keeps asking for something. If 432 Hz is the one you like, use it — liking it is a good enough reason.
questions
- Is 432 Hz better than 440 Hz?
- Not in any way that has been demonstrated. 432 Hz is traditionally associated with a warmer character and many listeners prefer it, which is a reason to choose it, but it is a preference rather than an effect.
- What does 432 Hz do?
- It gives you a single steady pitch to rest your attention on. Any settling you notice is far more likely to come from sitting still and slowing your breath than from the frequency itself.
- Can I play it for a long time?
- Yes. It is generated continuously rather than played from a file, so it will not loop, repeat or run out. Keep the volume low — a steady tone at a comfortable level is kinder over an hour than one you had to turn down later.
- Do I need headphones?
- No. Headphones make the tone cleaner, but speakers are fine. Headphones only genuinely matter for binaural beats, which need one frequency in each ear.
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