hi-finews FOR ENTHUSIASTS BY ENTHUSIASTS

摘要

Music may indeed be the food of love, but recent 'crossmodal' research has served to reinforce what all experienced audiophiles already know: that listening to music can influence our experience of how food tastes. And we know this because the corollary is also true: that eating, and drinking, during or even before listening can help steer our perception of how the music, and our hi-fi system, actually sounds. Now, before I get to suggesting that savouring a succulent steak or nursing an aged single malt might make for a more cost-effective upgrade than a new high-end cable, it's worth exploring the multisensory science explained by Professor Charles Spence, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford [see https://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/bObcfzxl].