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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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plato
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Hello Kubla,

As you know, I am a past Acoustat III owmer and on a couple of occasions a similar phenomenon occurred -- but only with one recording. I was playing through the tracks on Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" CD and I started to play the song "Vogue". As the song progressed, I distinctly heard Madonna's breathy voice whispering "Vogue" distinctly inside my left ear. So, if you too were listening to that particular song when this occurred, I think that simply reversing the left and right channels will set things right again. --Either that, or say 10 "Hail Mary's" and 5 "Our Fathers," then make a sincere "Act of Contrition". The latter option seemed to work best in my particular case.
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