An interesting development...

[RoyY51]

I think I have recently noticed a certain change in the house music that is played through the overhead speakers in retail stores. It sounds to me like the bass guitar has been bumped up an octave...to the point where it almost sounds like a lead instrument. The more I listen, the more I realize that, prior to this change, I have never heard the lower bass notes reproduced through the typically bass-shy house speakers. Raising the bass line an octave (if, indeed, that's what they're doing) enables me to hear the entire bass line. It makes those well-known songs sound a little weird but does bring an interesting facet to the table. I imagine that with octave splitters and other modern-day technologies, such a thing is probably possible, but does anybody know, for a fact, that it is actually being done? Or is it just my 60-year-old ears playing tricks on me?