More proof that music is not just an aural sensation.

Well, the neighbors high school daughter called Monday night to ask if I would please turn the music down when I was testing my system out to get the over-under on db levels. Dead quite, with the AC off, 42.1 db. And then the loudest my system will play with precision, Lee Michaels, the Lee Michaels album, the loudest sustained of all my music, 120.2 db.

The idea that a teenager would call me to turn it down was amusing. It was pure concussive ecstasy.  😉

There has been an ongoing discussion regarding subwoofers and tweeters that >go way up< here, and whether they are relevant to reproducing realism. I think this is proof that all energy in the musical reproduction spectrum has an effect on the listener.

To what extent will be interesting to find out.

You’re not breakin' it to me, I was just ribbin' you. 😉

It is that something extra that the music conveys to people that learn how to listen, at reasonable volumes, that makes the expense worthwhile; don't you think?

Explanation with visuals. And remember folks, your inner ear is a mechanical transcription device activated by sound waves, so this applies to that as well. and it appears that what makes your inner ear that device can also make other parts of your bodies interface with it's environment sense stimulation through sound waves as well.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627315007266

"This year’s medicine prize is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. Their discoveries have unlocked one of the secrets of nature by explaining the molecular basis for sensing heat, cold and mechanical force, which is fundamental for our ability to feel, interpret and interact with our internal and external environment."
-Nobel Prize committee.