Thread: Theta Waves

Originally Posted by Jacket

What's the difference between normal and isochronic beats?

Binaural beats do not explicity carry the low frequency wave; instead it arises as the interference tone between the left and the right channel. In other words, it doesn't work unless you hear both channels at the same time.

Isochronic beats carry the low frequency wave implicitly in each channel; it appears as a kind of "pumping" effect, where the volume increases and decreases with the low frequency. You will still get the effect even if you only listen to one of the two channels.

Yup I just read some stuff about that from the link @Tradl3s shared,
it seems that you don't need earphones to get benefits from the isochronic beats (it's recommended to use them though)

Some people say binaural beats work better with them, are they that different aside the fact that isochronic beats work on both channels?