A Call For Humor!

[Ropeburn]

from the Polk forums:
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Captioned: When an open baffle is a necessity, not a choice.

This is coming close to my long term wish for energetic acoustic field projectors, sci fi style. No baffle!

Imagine something like star trek holoprojection technology used for audio purposes. Converts energy into matter, or into another form of energy. You just have to calibrate it for sound. Freely configurable directivity, unlimited programmable sweet spots, no frequency limits that matter, no power limits for practical purposes either. If it can project actual musicians in a room playing their instruments, stereo playback becomes trivial. A dream!

 

[mhardy6647]

This is coming close to my long term wish for energetic acoustic field projectors, sci fi style. No baffle!

Imagine something like star trek holoprojection technology used for audio purposes. Converts energy into matter, or into another form of energy. You just have to calibrate it for sound. Freely configurable directivity, unlimited programmable sweet spots, no frequency limits that matter, no power limits for practical purposes either. If it can project actual musicians in a room playing their instruments, stereo playback becomes trivial. A dream!

Step away from the mushrooms. I repeat: step away from the mushrooms.

 

[Berwhale]

This is coming close to my long term wish for energetic acoustic field projectors, sci fi style. No baffle!

Imagine something like star trek holoprojection technology used for audio purposes. Converts energy into matter, or into another form of energy. You just have to calibrate it for sound. Freely configurable directivity, unlimited programmable sweet spots, no frequency limits that matter, no power limits for practical purposes either. If it can project actual musicians in a room playing their instruments, stereo playback becomes trivial. A dream!

I wonder if you could create acoustic waves by directly manipulating air particles with an array of optical tweezers...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002240731830044X and https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08222

 

[Bleib]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[thegeton]

... and so @Kal Rubinson is correct by definition.

Not correcting him, just refining a perspective.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[TheWalkman]

from the Polk forums:
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Captioned: When an open baffle is a necessity, not a choice.

I am quite familiar of designing a speaker with an infinite baffle. Is this an example of the opposite: a finite baffle speaker?

 

[thewas]

 

[Ropeburn]

I am quite familiar of designing a speaker with an infinite baffle. Is this an example of the opposite: a finite baffle speaker?

It's a zero baffle speaker. If you divide an infinite baffle speaker by it, the universe implodes.

 

[Bleib]

Well that sucks?

 

[Karmacoma]

Well that sucks?
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It's a bit sad he didn't grasp the supervillain potential of the situation...

 

[Jim Taylor]

 

[ryanosaur]

^
The first two, A+.

 

[mhardy6647]

^
The first two, A+.

And as to the third...
perhaps Ogden Nash put it best:

Celery raw
Is good for the jaw
But celery stewed
Is more quietly chewed

 

[KellenVancouver]

Railgun??

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Robin L]