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Because if they are I have some very bad news.
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Sure, they would have at least several resonances depending how it was excited.
For instance, if it were attached to a voice coil or excited mechanically, all of the resonances would show up as peaks in the radiation's frequency response (like cone breakup does).
On the other hand, if exposed to radiated sound, those resonances act like an powered vented box near another speaker or diaphragmatic wall panel, those resonances act as an absorbers and put notches in the response.
Resonance can either add to a signal or subtract from it depending how it was driven.
One can't help wondering what 500 randomly placed plastic jewel boxes resonating does to the sound. Here I'm only referring to acoustic resonator property.
How about resonances at RF frequencies?
I know they can make a "lens" at high RF out of solid plastic but also others types are transparent to RF.
So far as what the special "shattermax" plastic is they make CD cases out of, I don't know what it is or why it has those special properties giving them the excellent but UN-needed transparency and durability of a clay pidgeon.
Hint: the resonant frequency of Tchang tiny little bowl metal acoustic resonators can easily be calculated and measured, which he did. He also measured the reduction in RF the tiny little bowls provide up around 2 GHz. Even when they are located in other rooms. Does that surprise you? I once built a 9' folder horn Helmholtz resonator for a low frequency standing wave in my room once.
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Too lazy to look it up.
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Looks like a B-139 driver or what ever the number was, a flat front radiator KEF woofer. I made some transmission line's for a pair of those back in the day.
One could make a modern driver version of that horn layout that would be stunning.
Here's another mystery for you guys. The Franck Tchang tiny little bowl acoustic resonators, which are made of gold or silver or platinum, are about one inch wide at the opening and maybe 3/4 inch tall. So it's easy to calculate the resonant frequency, acoustic frequency. These resonators are tricky to place in a given room, some experimentation is necessary. These resonators equalize the pressure in the room.
But here's the kicker. Bass frequencies are improved rather strikingly. The question is how?
Kicker no. 2 - Franck Tchang measured reduction of RF in low GigaHertz. Why would that be?
OK, Pop*-? I vote Squirt in bottles and Nehi Grape soda
How a Helmholtz resonator can work to subdue a room mode is easy to explain / envision.
A standing wave dictates the pressure maximum is at the boundary which acts something like a mirror or better, what concrete represents when a super ball hits it.
IF one measured the pressure in the corner, you would see at the condition that you have a standing wave, you have a peak in the pressure in the corner. The down side is there are also Nulls produced where the bass is gone. IF you drilled a hole in the corner to the outside world, that would reduce the pressure at resonance and reduce the sharpness and magnitude of the standing wave .
That "hole" will let bugs in so instead, one makes a Helmholtz resonator (a volume of air in a container and Vent or duct to the room, like a vented box woofer with no woofer). This has the same resonant F as the room mode and so, at that frequency is "like" a duct to the outside in that at least at that one frequency, the air in the port is VERY easy to move like a duct to the outside and not ridged like a wall pressure boundary.
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Sorry, but that's completely unresponsive to my questions. Perhaps try again later. Anyone can Google Helmholtz resonator.
"Anyone can Google Helmholtz resonator. "
I guess part of my point what why it works when placed in a corner, sitting out in the middle of as room, not in a pressure maximum, it doesn't have anywhere near the same effect.
AS far as RF, my phone "hears" 2.4GHz but my ears don't
Pretty weird you would believe RF is not an issue in audio. Oh, well moving right along. As for pressure maximums, they can be anywhere in the room, you won't know for sure where exactly they are in the room unless you map out the entire 3D space of the room. This is why instructions are provided with tiny little bowl resonators, to minimize the effort necessary to find ideal locations. Obvious no two rooms are the same acoustically.
"Pretty weird you would believe RF is not an issue in audio. Oh, well moving right along."
Yes but what i said was "AS far as RF, my phone "hears" 2.4GHz but my ears don't"
So are you suggesting yours do?
You are late to the many posts on this forum during most of last year here on the dodgy subject of what is the audio signal and how does electricity in audio circuits work?The short answer is yes, your ears hear the *effect* of Radio Frequency interference. Obviously we don't hear RF directly, that would be absurd. They aren't acoustic waves.
The reason is because radio frequencies are *electromagnetic waves*. And external electromagnetic waves produce noise and distortion in audio signals because audio signals are themselves, you guessed it, electromagnetic in nature. Poynting vector with E and B fields.
Analogous to the deleterious effects of RF on our hearing is the effect of Very Low Frequency seismic type vibration, also outside nominal 20-20k Hz audio frequency bandwidth. Seismic type vibration is around 1 Hz - 20 Hz approximately.
The ball is in your court.
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everything matters... we just do not know what to measure and there is NO such thing as objective as we do not possess COMPLEAT knowledge, therefore all is subjective. Philosophy 101.
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
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