If soundwaves are compression waves in air molecules, and thermal energy is vibrations in air molecules, why aren’t loud things hot?

Question

Like if I have a really bright flashlight I can feel heat from the beam, but I can blast a speaker at max volume and I might even feel the vibrations in my hand, but there’s no change in temperature.

Is this a glitch in the matrix?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Why do you believe that ‘louder’ isn’t hotter then the corresponding wave?