k brown wrote:I got so immersed in listening [...] that I became convinced that my body was in an entirely different position than it really was. Freaked me out, big time.
Then you have some insight into some of the autistic perceptions that I've spoken of in other posts. That's just the kind of "hyper-focus" that's an everyday involuntary experience for many of us. The human mind's feeling of embodiment stems mostly from the sense known as
proprioception, which can either just be a bit wonky like mine, or becomes "locked out" by hyper-focus. Hence my scruffy beard - if I focus on using a mirror for shaving, my brain gets confused which of the "bodies" it's controlling (familiarity since infancy means that I usually find it more amusing than freaky!) I write all of my best code in such a hyper-focused state, though I'm inclined to get rather ratty with people who dare to snap me out of it!
There are very few autistic sensory oddities that can't be experienced by anybody if the conditions are right - you've got me wondering how FS might be used to create some of these conditions, in order to give people insights like you've had which are so often hard to put into words.
Spogg wrote:But what I did find was great stereo imaging. I eventually realised this was down to the fact that they had concentric tweeter cones.
A friend of mine years ago had a pair of the old Tannoy dual-concentric monitors, and I found the same listening to those - they weren't the highest-fidelity monitors that I've ever heard, but the imaging was pin-sharp and the "sweet-spot" much broader, especially in the vertical dimension.