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Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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Jazzy2018-08-08T15:33:02-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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gofar992018-08-09T22:22:50-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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Malfoy2018-08-10T03:06:11-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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gofar992018-08-10T21:14:42-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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Do you think the pressure has something to do with the elevation test that Stereophile made?]]>Jazzy2018-08-11T02:34:24-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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The speed of sound changes with temperature, pressure and humidity changes. But it's not nearly as significant as the electro-mechanico-acoustic shifts that happen at different applied power levels. So a loudspeaker's performance varies much more through its (power) operating range than through the ranges of temperature, pressure and humidity people are comfortable of using them in.
A good loudspeaker design is tolerant of parameter shifts. Components should be used well within their operating range, with drivers slightly overdamped. This way parameter shifts will not adversely affect performance.
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Jazzy2018-08-12T18:01:10-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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What I've said relates to loudspeakers, not musical instruments. I am proficient in the design of loudspeakers, but not musical instruments.
Loudspeakers do not depend upon panel resonance, and in fact, are designed to minimize the effects of panel resonance. So the only thing that comes into play is characteristics of the medium, which is air.
There are a lot of properties in loudspeaker design that are affected by the speed of sound, which is why I mentioned the effects of temperature, humidity and (altitude) changes in air pressure.
But these properties are only mildly affected by the changes caused by temperature, humidity and altitude, and are overshadowed by the parameter shifts from thermal changes due to power.
Musical instruments are very different. They do depend on panel resonance of the instrument body. The wood material and even the finish chosen have an effect on their sound. But this is where my experience ends with respect to musical instruments. I don't know what I would expect to change with environmental shifts. I would hope it wouldn't be too drastic though.
]]>Wayne Parham2018-08-12T23:40:54-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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Jazzy2018-08-16T08:04:39-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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Jazzy wrote on Wed, 08 August 2018 10:33
I noticed that our wooden door expands or shrinks a little bit depending on the weather. Do you think that the quality of musical instruments made of wood can be affected by weather?
If a guitar is treated, high quality wood, the humidity shouldn't effect it. That, and if they are in climate controlled spaces, that's better still. Instruments can be affected by weather conditions if they are poor quality and the weather conditions are extreme.]]>Vaiger2020-05-27T02:32:28-00:00Re: Does The Weather Affect The Quality Of Music?
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