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This ever happen to you?

First let me say, there were no drugs involved in this one.

I was listening to my tuner (old marantz solid state 20/20) on acoustat model 3s. i dont know what song was playing but it was in the alternative trance genre w/ lyrics. my right ear felt like it was connected to the speaker by a tube directly into my eardrum. it sounded exactly like i had one side of a pair of etymotics in my ear. the sound was totally divorced from the speaker and seemed to be coming out of a little tiny speaker situated right in my eardrum. the detail was perfect and the tone of the music seemed almost unreal and lush but with a slight humming (or vibrating) and absolutely personal. even when i moved my head a little it still felt like the sound was right in my right ear. this wasn't happening with my left ear. were there some sort of odd harmonics at work? was this an intentional mixing trick?

WTH?
kublakhan

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nlglassdbe4
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It could very well be some phasing trick buy the engineers.
Try switching the interconnects so that the sounds would be coming from the left channel....if it's there in the left also, then it's on the recording. Don't laugh folks, I remember hearing Jimi Hendrixs' "Electric Lady Land" the first time on a top setup and was simply blown away by having his guitar come from the back of my skull and swirl around. Un*&@ing believable! Phase tricks like the one Kubla describes are actually not that uncommon in recordings these days. Just listen to Madonna's "Ray of Light" album.....
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