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[–] Canopyflyer 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do they plan to deal with all the ozone that will come off of those plasma speakers? I've made a plasma tweeter in the past and it sounded excellent, but the ozone it produced made it rather unhealthy to run for long periods of time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can the ozone be countered by a reverse polarity static charge? Not sure how the laser printer do it, but recent printers barely emit ozone. I think it should be possible.

[–] Canopyflyer 3 points 1 year ago

Best thing would be to run it through am activated charcoal filter. That would catalyze (I think) the O3 to O2. Even HEPA filters would have no effect on ozone, as it's a molecule made up of 3 oxygen atoms.

[–] BertramDitore 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This could be great for audiophiles and musicians, but it could also mean I don't have to hear my neighbors fart through our paper-thin walls...where do I throw my money??

[–] Infinitenonblondes 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

fart simultaneously in the opposite phase.

[–] mantisteabaggin 11 points 1 year ago

Ahh yes… Newton’s 3.5th law “for every fart in nature there is an equal and opposite fart.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Somebody give this guy a goddamn phd.

[–] BertramDitore 3 points 1 year ago

THIS is why I'm here. Genius.

[–] 4am 2 points 1 year ago

Risky. If you end up out of phase and create a standing wave then we’re NOT responsible for the consequences

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 1 year ago

I mean you don't have to hear them fart but who doesn't enjoy a good squeak and giggle

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many decibels are their farts?

[–] BertramDitore 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hitting me with the real questions. LOUD. Prob between 50-70 dB. Not this loud, but loud.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 1 year ago

That's significant

[–] BertramDitore 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also well done with that username lol, can't believe I only noticed it after I replied.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, glad you got a laugh out of it

[–] BustlingChungus 3 points 1 year ago

Oh.. are you my neighbour? Sorry about that…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“We wanted to reduce the effect of the membrane as much as possible, since it’s heavy,”

Aren’t speaker membranes the lightest part of a speaker? I’d figure these things would still need amplifiers, would be highly dependent on where you sit (possibly amplifying unpleasant noise if you shift your position even a little bit due to phase), would generate ozone, and they don’t even really sound good when playing music, which means the ANC capabilities of them would be limited in the best case scenario.

I don’t know. Other “whole room ANC” devices have come and gone and none of them seem to work. It’s a great idea in theory, but I don’t know if this tech is any different in nature to just using membrane speakers.

ANC is already used in cars with moderate results, but you generally sit in one spot and there’s already speakers in your car.

[–] SkyPuncher 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compared to air, membranes are very heavy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is comparing against the metal screen, no? Sure, it doesn’t have the large magnetic element at the back like membrane speakers, but it’s not nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is impossible to "cancel" noise in a room, because physics. Maybe you could cancel out some waves in some parts of a room, but you would probably intruduce your own waves in other parts of the room.

My advice: get some foam/stone wool, plants, a couch, put a blanket on the wall and or ceeling. Absorb the waves. Active noise cancelation only really works in earphones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is how you get Batman Beyond villains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As someone with auditory sensitivities this could improve my life so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But can it silence my tinnitus?