[geeks] brown noise

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: 2007/10/07 Sun PM 07:31:50 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] T-3 Coax as Audio Cable

>On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:19:42AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> You left out output power and speaker efficiency - the more efficient
>> your speakers the less power it takes to cause the desired effect in your
>> pants. I pont this out because if you get the calculations wrong, instead
>> of a desireable resonance in your pants, it will cause an irritable
>> resonance in your bowls, and cause a (most likely) undesired emission in
>> your pants (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note or
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Recorder_Concert)...
>
>As someone else pointed out, MythBusters "busted" this one a year or two
>ago.

I believe they failed to account for the efficiency of the speakers in their distance calculations...

I also take their myth busting with a grain of salt, IMHO (and I am not a Physicist), they cut a few corners, are overly broad in their "interpretations" and are too quick to say things like "Well, we couldn't do it, so it must not be possible"... It is just a personal opinion, but if I watch a couple episodes back to back, I'll agree with about 90% of their findings.

I believe they are sincere about trying to prove/disprove myths, and beileve what they are saying, I just find occasional problems with their conclusions.

No, I can't cite any instances off the top of my head, except maybe the hot wheel car on the long track racing a viper rolling down the hill - because they couldn't get a consistent track, they busted the myth...

That said, I do love the show ;^)

Lionel