Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:15080 rec.boats:4732 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!laidbak!ism.isc.com!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun!mustang!nntp-server.caltech.edu!juggle!clark From: clark@juggle.gg.caltech.edu (Clark Brooks) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.boats Subject: Re: non-magnetic speakers Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 90 19:29:32 GMT References: <1990Oct16.140417.15202@phri.nyu.edu> <410@ulticorp.UUCP> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: juggle.gg.caltech.edu In <410@ulticorp.UUCP> frank@ulticorp.UUCP (Frank Cannavale III/1024000) writes: >In article <1990Oct16.140417.15202@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >> I want to put a pair of speakers on my boat, for a stereo. >>Unfortunately, the place where the speakers should go is within a couple of >>feet of the compass, so anything magnetic is bad. Are there speakers which >>do not generate any magnetic fields? They should be weatherproof too. >There are some rather exotic alternatives. The first that comes to >mind is electo-static. Usually a charged membrane with a grid placed ... >sub-woofer. This speaker type is not useful on a boat. (Makes a >good tweeter only though.) The second alternative (I'm really fuzzy on ... Frank overlooks the fact that woofer placement is not so important to sound quality. Electrostatic tweeters where you want them, and a woofer anywhere might solve your problem. Paranoia recommends shielded speaker cables. You don't say how much weather these speakers will get... -- clark@csvax.cs.caltech.edu Neuro-linguistic programming is simply the zig-zag and swirl of menorgs and disorgs acting under the suction and pressure of the morphogenetic field.