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From: michiel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Michiel Fierst van Wijnandsbergen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Flame Speaker Demo.
Message-ID: <131@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 2 Sep 88 09:48:49 GMT
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In article <3376@crash.cts.com> guhsd000@crash.cts.com (Paula Ferris) writes:
>
>I once saw a demonstration of a flame of burning gas used as a device for sound
>reproduction (Simply: A Speaker).
>
>Does anyone have any information on this?  I always though it would be a great
>item for a party (outdoors!) and a great conversational piece.

There is a German company actually building serious speaker systems
that use a flame-speaker for the high frequencies. It is sold
in the high end audio market in Europe.
The company is called MAGNAT. I am not sure if they still build these
speakers but they were popular in Europe a few years ago.

The sound was pretty good, although I personally didn't like the speakers
because their high end was to strong. That is, by the way, not due
to the fact that they used a flame-speaker, but due to the German taste.
Most German speakers have stronger high tones than, for instance, British
speakers.

MAGNAT called their system the plasm speaker I think (I'm doing all this
from memory). MAGNAT is well known in Europe as a company building
high end audio equipment.
If anybody wants more information, let me know. I will try to find
some papers about this product...

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