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Article #18083Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
From: farren
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1987 10:40
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1987 10:40
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In article <1130@hounx.UUCP> jong@hounx.UUCP (J.LEE) writes: > >The wave length of 20 K Hz tone is 5 kilometers??? >Nah. The velocity of sound is about 300 m/s at room temperature. >This makes the wave length of 20 KHz sinusoid 0.015m (=300/20k) >or 1.5 cm (~0.6 in). Granted, this is still much larger than >most audio conductor diameter. As to whether this causes audible >phase dispersion or not, I am still not sure. I am still >experimenting... . I see! They believe that it's *SOUND* travelling down the wire, not electrons! Well, that explains a *LOT* of things about rec.audio fanatics! :-), I suppose. -- ---------------- Mike Farren "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness unisoft!gethen!farren that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..." gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!farren From: farren@gethen.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire Message-ID: <179@gethen.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 06:40:59 EDT Article-I.D.: gethen.179 Posted: Sun Sep 27 06:40:59 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 21:43:39 EDT Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland Lines: 23