Leopold
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A couple of days ago I noticed that my whole body seems to respond to music - from headphones?? It is not the "goosebump-effect" I mean, I'm familiar with that one.
No, what I'm taking about is something much more physical, reminding very much of the physical sensation you get from standing in front of a high-powered speaker system, coming from wavefronts and resonances in the body. It is not imagination: music on, the sensation is there following powerful midbass (clean electric guitars for instance) and deep bass transients in particular, even powerful voices. Music off: nothing. Loud, clean, powerful music makes the most evident effect, a vibrating/tingling sensation tuned to the music.
It would be interesting to know other peoples experiences about this, and if something is known about the mechanism behind it. Is it really incoming signals from skin sensors that I perceive, and in that case how are they triggered? Are they propagated as microfluctuations in blood pressure or neurally from its origin in the ears? Or maybe it is really just some kind of a phantom image created by the brain, simulating a body response from previous experience of music and sound... many questions there!
The gear in question is Beyerdynamics DT250-80 and PA2v2. I never noticed this effect with my Koss Portapro but on the other hand I think I've listen much more in depth with the new gear. I enjoy music at significantly louder levels with the Beyers, maybe that has a lot to do with it as well.
I'd be happy for all ideas, what is going on here?!
EDIT: wrong title! It should have been "Weird psychosomatic-acoustic..." or something like that.
No, what I'm taking about is something much more physical, reminding very much of the physical sensation you get from standing in front of a high-powered speaker system, coming from wavefronts and resonances in the body. It is not imagination: music on, the sensation is there following powerful midbass (clean electric guitars for instance) and deep bass transients in particular, even powerful voices. Music off: nothing. Loud, clean, powerful music makes the most evident effect, a vibrating/tingling sensation tuned to the music.
It would be interesting to know other peoples experiences about this, and if something is known about the mechanism behind it. Is it really incoming signals from skin sensors that I perceive, and in that case how are they triggered? Are they propagated as microfluctuations in blood pressure or neurally from its origin in the ears? Or maybe it is really just some kind of a phantom image created by the brain, simulating a body response from previous experience of music and sound... many questions there!
The gear in question is Beyerdynamics DT250-80 and PA2v2. I never noticed this effect with my Koss Portapro but on the other hand I think I've listen much more in depth with the new gear. I enjoy music at significantly louder levels with the Beyers, maybe that has a lot to do with it as well.
I'd be happy for all ideas, what is going on here?!
EDIT: wrong title! It should have been "Weird psychosomatic-acoustic..." or something like that.