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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Liquid Cooled Speakers?
- Message-ID: <C1B671.CxK@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <136020002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> <5070326@hplsla.hp.com> <palane.727767466@pv7426.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:16:12 GMT
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- In article <palane.727767466@pv7426.vincent.iastate.edu> palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane) writes:
- >In <5070326@hplsla.hp.com> kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder) writes:
- >
- >I have a modest problem with the terminology the manufacturer is using.
- >Any system I used that is "liquid cooled" means that I'm forcing liquid
- >around devices which produce heat (lasers, magnets, etc.) It appears that
- >the manufacturer is using ferrofluid as a heatsink. I may be picking a
- >nit, but dubious advertising annoys me.
- >
-
- Well, I think this is an utterly minor nit. However, there may be a real
- reason behind it. The word "ferrofluid" is, to the best of my knowledge, a
- registered trademark of Ferrofluidics, Inc.. They are not the only people
- who make the stuff, but they own the name. It is likely that the drivers
- that are advertised as liquid cooled may not use the genuine article, thus
- cannot use the genuine name.
-
- Further, to the kind of people that often buy speakers that are "liquid
- cooled" (this is the name attached most often to the white van speakers
- and $300 monster rack systems), the term ferrofluid may be utterly
- meaningless. "Liquid cooled" certainly conjurs a comprehensible image that
- "ferrofluid" does not.
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