Headphones

Listening - and very much enjoying - Platinum Breakz 1 in headphones on the way home from work today, I pondered the strength of the bass in the Sony Fontopia, grommet-style headphones I use. Not that bad I thought, reasonably good definition. But the way to really hear Jungle is either in a club or a car with a good system where the various frequencies are that much more powerful, most obviously the bass being gut wrenching, stomach wobbling, etc. Not possible in headphones, but the experience of that impact in the gut is communicated to the brain via nerve endings, etc. Will it be possible to experience such sensations via neural implants one day? How far along is science in that regard? Just wondering.


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