A recent research study found that low-frequency bass make people more likely to dance at a live music performance, even if they can’t actually hear the extremely low sounds. A recent research study ...

In order to understand how sound is felt by the body, we have to examine how the body feels anything to begin with. The human sensory system is commonly thought of as a set of five senses: touch, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with neuroscientist Daniel Cameron, who found that inaudible, low-frequency bass appears to make people boogie nearly 12% more on the dancefloor. Sometimes it really is all ...

To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...

My first band, Galaxie 500, may have had something of its own take on rock music, but in the late 1980s our lineup was standard for the day: guitar, bass, drums. When we showed up at clubs, no one ...

A good subwoofer can transform your home theater or stereo setup, but even the best sub won’t perform well if it’s in the ...

Bass. How low can you go? That may well depend on the proper placement and set up of your subwoofer. For what could be viewed as a kind of one-trick pony when it comes to audio, subwoofers are ...