Hehe, I was about to say as well: We have that in metal. It's called a bass and kickdrums. > I wonder if they would need a vest at the last hard rock/metal co

Hehe, I was about to say as well: We have that in metal. It's called a bass and kickdrums. > I wonder if they would need a vest at the last hard rock/metal concert I went to. I know quite a few people hard of hearing (either from age, birth or .. well, not entirely responsible consumption of loud music) who love metal concerts exactly for that. It's weird to people who haven't experienced it. Think about it that way: There are different qualities to enjoy the music. At first, you have shitty laptop speakers which... don't have a lower end, at all. Then you get speakers with a lower end and suddenly the song gets a whole new dimension of kick to it, as now the bass and the headbanging kickdrum really start happening. And then you go to a concert with a good sound system and that kick drum or those blast beats become a full body experience. Even if you wear plugs - and you totally should wear quality ear plugs[1] - you can feel the rhythm section. Lemmy wasn't joking with the line "Here comes the bass - thunder in the guts". Some of the good rythm sections feel like there is an actual wall of sound hitting you. 1 - I'd recommend everyone enjoying loud music to spend 20-30 euros on some good senner plugs. Mine have lasted for years already - the only way I see needing a new one would be losing one. It's really interesting, because they just cut out a lot of sound pressure from the lower ends without cutting out melody or vocals. You can talk to people with them in almost normally. I've even started wearing them during a company event some time ago. There were a million people talking in the same room and it made it easier to understand the person I was talking to, because the plugs took out the insane background murmuring. And those are the plugs professional sound guys use, so you get closer to how the mix is supposed to sound :)