Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief

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From: clifto
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:41

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trent wrote:
> Fred wrote:
>> 
>> trent wrote:
>> 
>> >>a muffler on a car is an everyday example of 'passive cancellation'.
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't think muffling is considered cancellation, outside of the Bose
>> > Marketing Department anyway.
>> 
>> Reference http://www.flowmastermufflers.com/performance.html :
>> 
>> "Our rich exhaust sound is created by Flowmaster's patented noise
>> cancellation system, where exhaust sound energy is split and directed
>> through slightly different paths.   Where the paths merge, the two parts
>> of the sound energy are out of phase creating noise cancellation, much
>> as two ripples colliding in a pond absorbing each others energy."
> 
> Total BS.  Take an engineering class.  Everybody knows that exhaust
> noise is trapped inside of a muffler until it is full.  Then it is
> replaced with a new, empty muffler.

That's right. And fullness is what causes holes to appear in mufflers
and let the noise leak out.

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