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Subject: Re: re: Extra speakers and autio myths - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 00:01:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 24 00:01:56 1984
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inmet!muller    Mar 22 16:38:00 1984

G. R. never said it was ridiculous that you (thought you) heard
something.  He only criticized the explanation of it.

Of course we don't know everything about sound (we must keep
straight the distinction between wave effects of the sound field
and signal processing effects of the electronics) but to hold to
such an explanation is comparable to holding that phlogiston is
responsible for combustion.  Better to find a more acceptable
explanation than to hold to a ridiculous one just to prove the
perceived effect was real.  Some of those better explanations can
be found in the well-understood behavior of a wave field without
requiring the less acceptable explanation of the "extra speaker".