[ChorusofAngels]

Today, I was out walking listening to my portable setup.  I own a 3rd Generation iPod Touch through a copper/silver alloy LOD to a TTVJ Slim with my favorite re-262s and I heard something very weird.  Occasionally, the sound would cut out in the right ear, except, only when I had my right foot on the ground.  I carefully tested this by raising and lowering my right foot slowly to see if these two events coincided, and they definitely did.
 
Theories anyone?

 

[pooslice]

Something might have snapped in your headphone cable. Play music and wiggle the cable around to hear if you can reproduce the problem

 

[ChorusofAngels]

Nope, it was totally irrelevant of all factors.  I took the amp out of my pocket and jiggled all the cords as much as possible, but none of them did anything, not even a hiss of static.  I tried everything to reproduce the thing, but it only happened when I had it in my pocket and I was walking

 

[estreeter]

Alien abduction ? Any signs of recent probing ?

 

[pooslice]

That is so strange. Maybe something is getting strained when you move your right leg. Try putting in in your left pocket of use a belt clip instead.

 

[Tyll Hertsens]

Maybe you stepped in some highly conductive dog poop, and you shorted out. 

 

[estreeter]

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Maybe you stepped in some highly conductive dog poop, and you shorted out. 

 
I guess that sensation would look a lot like this, Tyll ! 

 
http://www.stereophile.com/content/tyll-hertsens
 
 
 

 

[fabio-fi]

Ground loop? 

 

[ChorusofAngels]

I was thinking that somehow my clothes were conductive enough to produce a complete circuit, so it worked.  However, when I step on the dirt it creates a ground which attracts the flow of electrons down.  Honestly, this is the most puzzling thing I've ever seen.  I tried repeating it today and it happened again, just not as clearly as last time.  Maybe I was wearing less conductive clothes haha

 

[Roller]

Given that there was already a reported case of a guy listening to music on a mp3 player through earbuds, and got struck by lightning, being saved strictly because the mp3 player routed lightning to it, I wouldn't be surprised. Though, it should be noted that the path of the earbuds' wires left nice burns on his body.
 
Music has once again proven to be a great friend of man

 

[benjistein]

Link (to article) or it isn't true!*
 
 
*Weak corallary to the "pics or it isn't true" theorem.

 

[Roller]

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Link (to article) or it isn't true!*
 
 
*Weak corallary to the "pics or it isn't true" theorem.

Sorry, National Geographic documentary.
 
But given your strong disbelief, let's make it like this, I go out on the open under a heavy thunderstorm, wielding a mp3 player, and you do the same, but without a mp3 player. The crispy one loses

 

[bradhyper]

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Sorry, National Geographic documentary.
 
But given your strong disbelief, let's make it like this, I go out on the open under a heavy thunderstorm, wielding a mp3 player, and you do the same, but without a mp3 player. The crispy one loses

I'll come out with an industrial lightning rod to act as the control group. This is gonna be Great!
 

 

[Roller]

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I'll come out with an industrial lightning rod to act as the control group. This is gonna be Great!
 

You do realize that said experiment should be done with a Head-Fi meet nearby, we would harness all that energy and power all the hungriest cans that lurked, eager for raw power to drive them...

 

[benjistein]

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Sorry, National Geographic documentary.
 
But given your strong disbelief, let's make it like this, I go out on the open under a heavy thunderstorm, wielding a mp3 player, and you do the same, but without a mp3 player. The crispy one loses

Ahh, that's a shame. Oh, well.
Your other option sounds like quite a chancy endeavor. What happens if we both win ... or lose?