Mike Miller wrote: > Boy have you opened a can of worms, high frequency ones, low frequency ones > and the rest too. > > This subject is the subject of many debates and even some hard research, > much of it bound up in psychoacoustics. Dr. Floyd O'toole late of the > Canadian sound research project set up by the Canuck government did a bunch, > as well as many others over quite a few years. > > Still way more questions than answers. Indeed. Remember that this the interior of a vehicle, and not a particularly quiet one at that, and that the speakers are mounted on pieces of fiberboard in an enclosure consisting of thin stamped metal, with the drivers usually directed at the side of the listener's legs. Trying to achieve some degree of signal fidelity in this environment is very difficult, and even if it was managed, it would be as difficult to appreciate as good perfumes in a glue factory. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.