Date:         Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:34:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: sound-deadening ??
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Solder connection just a bit loose?

On 11/21/03 1:35 PM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> At 04:09 PM 11/21/2003, Sam Williams wrote:
>> Maybe this is all wrong & I should just be happy driving my 40 year old truck
>> around at 50 mph, but it really can go quicker!
>
> Aiwa sound-cancelling earphones make a remarkable difference in an '84
> Westy.  You can really hear the rattles with the roar largely suppressed...
> <g>  Kinda bizarre, but fairly cheap at $50 per, and certainly easy.  The
> effect seems a lot greater when you turn them off than when you turn them
> on....  Rig up a couple boom mics and an intercom circuit and you can
> whisper in each other's ear.  Can do that without the noise cancelling, of
> course.
>
> david
> ps -- if someone else is doing this, we get a pronounced click in the
> phones when going over a sharp bump.  Phones powered, doesn't matter
> whether they're plugged in to anything but your shirt pocket.  Click may be
> one ear or both, and typically not exactly simultaneous if both.  Sometimes
> one pair will click and not the other -- I think.  Any experience/clue?  I
> have a couple thoughts, not tested yet.
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>
>