Skin Orgasms caused by music .


Who else has had this very interesting phenom ?

      http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150721-when-was-the-last-time-music-gave-you-a-skin-orgasm

Thank ,

RG in Audiophile Hell !
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The physical aspect in live music is almost always missing in reproduced, imo, no matter the cost of the system. Part of that is the spl at live shows featuring sound reinforcement, part is how much mid-bass is created by the venue itself.
Part of it is uncompressed and uncompromised dynamics and complex micro-shading, which operate as a set piece, with live instruments, and possibly with well done PA and acoustics.

This is what the ear desires to hear and can work with. The compression and loudness wars sucked the very soul out of music.

Ie, the music business simultaneously shot the goose and the messenger when they went into the loudness wars.

Part of the backlash of that, is the reintroduction of analog via LP.
I don’t imagine you can can recreate a rock concert at home , but then I’ve never been to one .
I have been to several thousand classical concerts and with the best CD’s,
from firms like BIS and harmonia mundi(france) , you can come damn close .
Fact, a large amount of what you "hear" is memories of what you have heard live thrown by brain into mix .

That’s why a 90 yr conductor who can’t hear 4K on a hearing test can correct a Musician playing a boo-boo at 10K .

Extreme Compression was/ is? an effort to make sure the radio dial went no further when air-time was the main thing
that sold rock/pop recordings .

Schubert, substantially correct...  I can get a 'near field' spl level going, but duplicating a live venue's 'feel', what with the amounts of amperage + the quantity of drivers + 'stage magic' (compression/expansion, eq tricks, alpha exciters, and all...), with the computers 'running the show' literally....  It only works if the music is 'simplistic', say, acoustic and voice only.at home.

No wonder some of us respond with a 'Huh?' when spoken to...;)  I have no problem at live shows with the spl of the music.  But the 'white noise' of the crowd cheering after a selection or set really gets a negative reaction by my ears.  I've taken to carrying ear plugs of some type to combat that...

The 'feel' of the pressure waves at the live show could be duplicated, but you're running some 'heavy artillery' to do so.  And dialing it into the space you've got as well....and ignoring the neighbors, banging on the door...*L*

MHO...as usual...;)
Works fine to get a mid-hall seat sound of a symphony orchestra which is the most complicated thing in all of music .