Home Tweakers' Asylum

Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ.

[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Tweakers' Asylum ]
[ Alert Moderator ]

excitation

of the atoms are generally regarded as being part of the piezo effect, and in diagmagnetic material, which pretty much all materials are, the E or H fields passing through the material generates a movement of the electron field related to the direction of the field applied. This of course creates a slight magnetic field because the electrons tend to move towards one side of their orbit ( at least the outermost electron shell). It is this transformation of the energy field which makes the use of crystals important in my thinking.

The laws of thermodynamics impose a conservation of energy. You can transform the energy but you can not eliminate them. I believe we are using the crystals to take the absorbed energy and convert them into heat through motion.

By your thinking, actually all materials, irregardless of their composition, has a certain mass damping effect. Room tunes uses fiberglass fill on their corner tunes, Enacom uses a plastic sticker: Harmonix uses a a little chicklet sized piece of constrained layer damping. All these devices transform the acoustical energy in a room into another form.

You don't need a crystal, and certainly a crystal may not be the optimum device for room damping.

Check out the new Verizon Hall in Philadelphia: they make extensive use of woods to break up reflections and to dampen sound. You don't see them using crystals in their acoustic design. No musical instrument I know of uses crystals to generate their sound, which says a lot about the use of crystals to control acoustic modulation.

Of course YMMV


Stu

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Parts Connexion  

Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
FAQ

Post a Message!

 Forgot Password?
Moniker (Username):
Password (Optional):
  Remember my Moniker & Password  (What's this?)    Eat Me
E-Mail (Optional):
Subject:
Message:   (Posts are subject to Content Rules)
Optional Link URL:
Optional Link Title:
Optional Image URL:
Upload Image:
E-mail Replies:  Automagically notify you when someone responds.

[ Top Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]