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Has to be said

Hi,
i been reading most sites and the little arguments about this and that about making audio in this case be more pleasent ot better to any individual. and have to say upfront that if "you" believe its better to you than it is in fact true to you and you only. we are just reletive respondants to each other and therefore nature and the universe.
many of the subjects that come up as to improving ones audio system tend to go into little details that may or may not have "real" affects on most of us. and also be provable with phsics,math,medical studies etc.many musicians and many humans can distinguish alot of these aspects. and they are ALL quantifiable and measureable very easilly. from 1800 till today FFT and resonance,sound perfiliration has been well adjustable from the totally acoustic pipe organs to the music halls 100s of years ago with out electronic fixes, and all these new snake oil gagets on the market. many are always big commenters here on this site.
Its totally true you can "fix" and sound wave with free rocks,walls,chambers, etc. so go for it at a cost of zero dollars. and adbandon all these marketing hacks.
Ive been well into sound,RF,Radioation, Electron manulipation, Audio,phsics etc all my life and all my relatives aslso . I dont need to justify my opinions yet am dignified by holding 8 international patents,2 doctrets and my dad with similar fields.
one crazy obvious thing no one even bothers to mention is the way off standard of 440hz shifted 8hz the earths standard resonance. while all the 1000s of years 432hz was based on real natural happenings before electronics. dont you all care everything you listen to is 8hz off tune and therefore wrong, but you will bicker about a few microvolts noise from an ocslittating wire with parallell wire  hanging off a standoff. itf too funny to me.
yes all digital except one source tunes their DAC math to 435hz to be more correct to Verdi and other great composers.
ive got tuning forks over the audio and above spectrum and tune my panios violins etc to them 432 hz
and need to say again. yes please do everything Analoge
to correct your sound system, its been done in churches,music halls,the great pyrmids, with instruments themselves.
but do not chase the rabbit down the money hole to fix apparent physhoacoustics in your listening area.

ps the spelling and writing is horrid cause ive got a brain injury2 years ago and under go EEG,ehthesographs and neuro studies constantly. where various frequency sweeps are put thru me and studied by the medical and commercial fields.
Im off for now to play my bass thru 50000watts total. and resonate the neighborhood at 8.2 HZ....

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rodman99999
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@jetter - The OP brought up Physics/electrons/various rabbit holes, when they started this particular thread.     If you don’t like the course it’s taken, blame them!
jetter
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rodman99999, I see your point.
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geoffkait
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Say, speaking of the OP whatever became of him anyway? He kind of left us dangling here. Did his self-destruct button blow itself up? 😳
rodman99999
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He only dug this hole, two days ago.    Give him time.
atdavid
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Miller and GK arguing about physics ... I have to give the win on this one almost completely to GK, even his use of glass was suitable as this was how x-rays were discovered.

Miller, You are correct bremsstrahlung is the predominant mechanism, but what you describe below is not bremsstrahlung but characteristic x-rays. Bremsstrahlung would be caused by the accelerated electrons bouncing off predominantly nuclei (and electrons) and rapidly decelerating and releasing broad-spectrum x-rays related to their accelerated energy, ie 100kev. That is why you can "tune" an x-ray to any potential you want, and get a broad spectrum of x-rays that corresponds to that energy potential. A mark of 8/10 goes to GK. 1 mark off for not stating that collisions with electrons can also release "breaking" radiation, and 1 mark off for putting this as the 2nd mechanism as opposed to the 1st or primary. Sorry Miller, 0/10 as you did not describe this at all.

On the characteristic radiation, which is a secondary mechanism in an x-ray generator, 5/10 to miller for explaining part of the mechanism properly, and 3/10 to GK for partially explaining what happens. The correct answer is an electron-electron collision can knock an inner shell electron out of the shell. That will allow an outer shell higher energy electron to drop to the lower energy shell and consequently release a photon at a very specific energy for the material be it tungsten or glass.

With 11/20 the win goes to GK, easily beating Miller and his score of 5/10.


The reaction we are mainly concerned with here happens in the electron shell. Collision energy causes electrons in one shell to increase in energy to the next higher level shell. Think of it as pushing them into a higher orbit. But electrons in their shells balance protons in the nucleus, so this is an unstable situation. But to fall back where it "belongs" is a lower energy state and so to balance the equation the tungsten atom releases a photon. A very high energy photon we call an x-ray.

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