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- From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
- Subject: Re: Wire to Center Channel
- In-Reply-To: bill@bilver.uucp's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14: 03:08 GMT
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- Organization: Yale University, Intelligent Sensors Lab, Elect. Eng.
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:10:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.140308.1639@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp
- (Bill Vermillion) writes:
-
- >Let's take another example. If you were REALLY sloppy in your
- >measurements and you mis-cut the wire and had one longer
- >than the other by some amount - for example - of 1000 feet. You would
- >be getting phase shift on the frequencies in the 1MHz range.
-
- This is almost as bad as putting a dispersive medium between the
- sound source and the listener. Let's imagine that the speed of
- sound depend on the frequency so c(20Hz)=1128.386ft/sec and
- c(20kHz)=1128.549ft/sec. Now let us imagine that the sound had
- to travel 100 feet through this medium before it gets to the
- listener. This works out to a delay of 0.0128ms between the low
- and high frequencies. This can also be viewed as the 20kHz tone
- being phase shifted by 92 degrees with respect to the 20Hz tone!
-
- In case you're thinking to yourself that you're glad that you don't
- have to listen to anything that bad, you're probably wrong. The
- numbers are for air with a temperature of 20C (68F) and a
- relative humidity of 50%.
-
- Jim
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- James Szinger jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu
-
- "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
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