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AlphaPodcast – How small can it actually get?

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AlphaPodcast – How small can it actually get?

We have an interesting discussion with Ole from System Audio. We want to know if we are running into the limits of physics with ever-smaller speakers. Let’s see what Ole has to say about that…. Warning: we’re getting a little philosophical.

Hi-fi gear is getting smaller and smaller. And in the process, we’re seeing more and more compact, active speakers. Our question: aren’t we getting to the limits of what physics still finds acceptable? After all: battling physics is useless! Or is it?

Check out the podcast

https://youtu.be/XJkVdQWl6Aw

2 COMMENTS

  1. Hey,
    Just listened to your podcast discussing the missing fundamental.
    Interesting. Reminds me of a lecture (Physics of musical instruments) i took 30 years ago at the university of Heidelberg.
    This concept also holds for musical instruments. For example a grand piano (No matter which brand) is not able to radiate the fundamental of it‘s lowest notes, it is just not big enough, its strings are only a certain length. We did measure this on a Bösendorfer and on a Cello during the lecture .Only one octave up, the fundamental kicked in.
    There was one exception however, an Italian brand Fazioli, they make grand pianos that big, so they are capable to reproduce the fundamental.

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