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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Loud Music, Noise cancelation systems?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214608.15302@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 21:46:08 GMT
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- In article <C1Dtp8.65u@world.std.com> DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce) writes:
- >In article <C1DIz4.9C2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rmg53668@dcl-nxt53 (Ryan Martin Grant) writes:
- >>>>: 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.
-
- [...]
-
- >>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.
- >>
- >
- >There's a couple of fundamental reasons why it can't possibly be the dream
- >system you hope it would be. Most fuindamental among them is the fact
- >that, at the very best, you can provide cancellation over a volume whose
- >dimensions are comparable to the shortest wavelength your interested in
- >cancelling.
-
- [...]
-
- >Cancel it at the source. Don't bother with DSP. Use a pair of wire cutters
- >instead. It's cheaper. Even selling your house and moving is cheaper.
-
- Well, that all depends--if, as in an example given in a previous message,
- the source happens to be a particularly dull professor, using wire cutters
- to cancel him, while often very effective, is probably illegal in most
- states and in some cases might even affect your grade....
-
- Seriously, though, Dick is right--without making an near-infinitely
- controllable driver that encloses the space you want to work with, there's
- not a whole lot of immediate applications except headphones (airport
- telephones would be nice, but I doubt anyone building an airport would
- spend that kind of money on anything that would actually be beneficial),
- engine compartments, and things of that sort--vehicle interiors are
- probably pushing the limits of size where such a technique could affect
- a useful amount of bandwidth.
-
- What I think is amusing about this new technology is that it featured
- prominently in one of the short stories in Arthur C. Clarke's "Tales
- from the White Hart" (which I think was first published in the '40s--
- can't tell you the exact date until I can get my SF collection organized
- again).
-
- Trygve
-