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... one of the speakers in a quad box blow the magnet out between your legs? ... It certainly weakened my knees a little!
And left him polarized with fear!
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A good bass sound is appreciated by classical fans as well. I have quite a few CDs of organ music (organ pieces or choral pieces with organ accompaniment). If you have a big piece like Liszt's Fantasie and Fugue on B-A-C-H or a good English organist accompanying a cathedral choir singing a psalm to an Anglican chant, when things get really warmed up and the 32-foot stops go on, the floor in my living room vibrates up and down, flowers sway in the vases, and the pictures rattle against the walls (and the music isn't terrifically loud).
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Yes, Bob. I know zackley what you mean - the music doesn't have to be turned up that loud. Must have something to do with the harmonics, yes?
And, anyone:
Any relationship between "woof" (as in "woofer/tweeter") and "doof"?
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A good bass sound is appreciated by classical fans as well.
Here I go, agreeing with BobY again!
One thing though is the difference between classical and (for lack of better word) modern.
The difference in the sound is similar to the clean cut of a scalpel (classical bass) and the THWACKTHUMP of a cleaver weilded by a heavy hand.
My stereo can make the water in a glass dance to the tune of Ode To Joy, and makes me tingle all over!
But it doesn't hit me in the pit of the stomach like the THWACKTHUMP of the augmented base staccato beat in a modern piece.
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I don't fancy myself a classical music fan ~ in fact sometimes, I find classical music puts me on edge. [shrug] What I *do* claim aficionada status on, however, is a capella. I bought my current stereo specifically for the "Bass Boost" capability, because few things can bring me to my knees like Rockapella's bass-man hitting his last note of Sixteen Tons. Have mercy. 
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The bumper sticker is right : I'm too old!
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But only for deep and throbbing bass lines, dearest wise one!
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harmonics
Yes, it does have to do with harmonics. I'm not an expert on this subject, but we are all, I guess, familiar with the story of the opera singer who could break a glass by singing the correct note; in fact, there was a commercial on TV some time ago which purported to show that. From my own experience, I noted an interesting manifestation of this: last year, on a big festival, our organist at church, as postlude, treated us to the Toccata from Widor's 5th Organ Symphony, a well-known piece which reminds me of a bus blowing its horn while going through the tunnel under the Simplon Pass (I've heard that, so I can make the comparison) and ends up on the tonic major chord with all stops on and everything wide open. As he was playing this, I noticed that the big brass altar cross was vibrating with the music. Not having ever played that piece or seen the score, I had to ask what key it was in to see what that piece of brasswork was tuned to.
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The Wise Old Woman states: I'm too old!
That may or may not be, but the music is also too loud. Hearing deteriorates with age and if being too old were the problem it would be less of a problem.
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Although I alluded to the definition earlier, the term used truly is "sympathetic vibrations". The "harmonics" of a note are what (most often) are sympathetically vibrated by source sounds. An example of the difference in these terms can be demonstrated on a piano by slowly holding down the forte' pedal (the one on the right that allows the notes to sustain) and singing a note into its strings. The resulting sounds that comes from the strings is sympathetically generated. The resulting loudest tones are usually the harmonics or upper octaves and extensions of "Pythagorean proportions", and unless you yell or sing real loud, the fundamental or lowest occuring octave (ie. your voice note) resists sympathising. "Is it live, or is it Ella Fitzgerald"? 
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