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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do you feel heavy in the chest when you hear loud bass sounds?
gpt
Because low frequency noise is much better at being absorbed by surfaces and transferring energy into solid materials. That heavy chest feeling is literally your body absorbing sound energy and vibrating. Higher frequency sound is more reflective. 

This is why when you work with humans and acoustics you don't measure sound in dB, you measure in a scale called dBA, which is like "wind chill" in temperature. It's the way sound makes you feel, vs the absolutely power of the sound.