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From: farren@gethen.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
Message-ID: <179@gethen.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 06:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 06:40:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 21:43:39 EDT
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
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In article <1130@hounx.UUCP> jong@hounx.UUCP (J.LEE) writes:
>
>The wave length of 20 K Hz tone is 5 kilometers???
>Nah.  The velocity of sound is about 300 m/s at room temperature.
>This makes the wave length of 20 KHz sinusoid 0.015m (=300/20k)
>or 1.5 cm (~0.6 in). Granted, this is still much larger than
>most audio conductor diameter. As to whether this causes audible
>phase dispersion or not, I am still not sure.  I am still
>experimenting... .

I see!  They believe that it's *SOUND* travelling down the wire, not
electrons!  Well, that explains a *LOT* of things about rec.audio
fanatics!

:-), I suppose.


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Mike Farren             "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
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