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Article #7819Re: Plasma speakers (was Re: homemade welder)
From: Lee K. Gleason, Control-G Consul...
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 00:10
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 00:10
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In article <1990Oct16.145517.10214@ariel.unm.edu>, ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes: > In article <2142@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU > (Bill White) writes: >> I seem to recall reading or hearing about a beast called a "plasma >>speaker" - which used some form of a gas plasma (I think argon) to produce >>high-quality sound. I guess it even went to market, but was too high >>priced and too bulky (you had to have a tank of argon to make it work) >>for most people. Is this just another urban myth? First place I saw anything about plasma speakers was a construction article in the early '60s, in _Popular Electronics_. THe project used a gas flame for the plasma source, and produced pretty acceptable audio - a little weak on the low end, but not bad at all.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!mwk!gleason From: gleason@mwk.uucp (Lee K. Gleason, Control-G Consultants) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Plasma speakers (was Re: homemade welder) Message-ID: <5225@mwk.uucp> Date: 17 Oct 90 00:10:18 GMT References: <7203.2719ec15@jetson.uh.edu> <2142@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <1990Oct16.145517.10214@ariel.unm.edu> Organization: M. W. Kellogg, Houston TX Lines: 13