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This has nothing to with B&O, just a nice experience I want to share with you.
I went to a spa yesterday and they had a mineral pool there. And there was music underwater.
It was the most amazin experience I have had. Just swimming around under water (my favourite thing to do) and listening to music.
The only thing that could have made it better was if I could chose the music.
Does anyone know how this works? Are there speakers or is it resonance? I was swimming around trying to locate the sound source, but it was impossible..
Anyway, just wanted to share
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leogoeswild:This has nothing to with B&O, just a nice experience I want to share with you. I went to a spa yesterday and they had a mineral pool there. And there was music underwater. It was the most amazin experience I have had. Just swimming around under water (my favourite thing to do) and listening to music. The only thing that could have made it better was if I could chose the music. Does anyone know how this works? Are there speakers or is it resonance? I was swimming around trying to locate the sound source, but it was impossible.. Anyway, just wanted to share
"How does it sound? Well, the limits of bone conductivity make stereophonic sound impossible underwater. The skull provides only a single source of sound transmission, whereas air conductivity hearing provides two -- one in each ear. But that doesn't mean the sound itself is monophonic -- rather it's what Stanford University music researcher John A. Maurer IV referred to as omniphonic sound [source: Maurer].
In a swimming pool, fast-traveling sound waves leave the underwater speaker and bounce off the bottom of the pool, the surface of the water and each side of the pool. The sound reaches the listener from all directions, and the human brain simply can't process the original sound source."
That explains why it was so amazin. It was like being submerged in sound, The sound was all around :)