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- From: rmg53668@dcl-nxt53 (Ryan Martin Grant)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Loud Music, Noise cancelation systems?
- Message-ID: <C1DIz4.9C2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:47:27 GMT
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- logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) writes:
-
- >In article <C14E3p.6rs@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (A. J. Dean) writes:
- >>Ryan Martin Grant (rmg53668@dcl-nxt53) wrote:
- >>: I've read (in Popular Science) about new tech where sound is analysed
- >>: in real time using chips and an opposite wave is generated to cancel the
- >>: signal.
- >>
- >>I can see that sort of thing getting very popular when DSP and ADC
- >>technology get cheap enough. Cancelling a sound field rather than a
- >>single source would require more channels, but if it's cheap...
- >>
- >>Another reason is that if you use some form of adaptive filtering (the
- >>easiest way to do it?) you end up with a very general plug-and-go
- >>sort of arrangement. No complicated tuning procedures etc, it does
- >>it by itself. Also, the system could be used to make sound as well.
-
- >And then the next improvement, of course, would be a system that could be
- >used both to cancel and reproduce sound at the same time. Imagine the end
- >user's surprise when he wonders why his 200 watt amplifier begins clipping
- >for no apparent reason on a soft musical passage, and suddenly he realizes
- >that his system has been cancelling out the sound of a helicopter flying
- >directly overhead. :-)
-
- >Portable stereos could have the sound cancelling features built in as well,
- >so that you could take your jambox to the movies and set it up to cancel
- >the people who won't stop talking.
-
- >I can see it now - the marketing types can call it Sound Forcefield (tm).
- ....
- > But wait!! There's more. This wonderful device also doubles
- > as a stereo system! Simply hook up your CD player or tape deck
- > and get wonderful audio reproduction as well. In fact, the system
- > can be used to cancel background noise *while* playing music.
- ....
- > The possibilities are endless!"
-
- They seem endless, yes. Imagine an end to noise pollution as we know it.
- It would be beautiful.
-
- These dreams are very similar to my own, but I was wondering if any
- rec.audio wizards could bring up any hard facts for/against this technology
- ever going mainstream.
-
- - Ryan Grant
-