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Suck it down hybrid haters
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"Both Porsche and Ferrari have also ruled out electric versions of their sports cars, because they feel the sound of a high-revving internal combustion engine is part of their DNA."
Could be solved with a few loud-speakers.
Sylvia.
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Short time ago I found out boy racers were using speakers to simulate turbo whine and sound effect from the blowoff valve.
What's the world coming to? That's just plain wrong.
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Might have to redesign the speakers somewhat. I don't see why they have to be physically large though - the system whose sound output they're emulating isn't that big.
Sylvia.
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Porsche make soft-roaders. As long as there is a market with more than it's fair share of cashed up ignorant wankers, manufacturers will tool up to cater to it.
Your point is?
-- Regards, Noddy.
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So I guess an electric Harley is out of the question...
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A set trembler and a 100W amp from any computer-store would do the job perfectly. You'd just need the controller.
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Of course that should've been "seat" trembler......
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Lu R:
Sylvia Else:
Trevor Wilson
From a 60's or 70's comedy routine "Speaker? The _whole_ _house_ is a speaker."
I'm sure there are kids in LA that have the creativity to help Ferrari/Porsche/Lamborghini solve their problem--which is to project the sound that the geezers who buy their cars like to hear, in hopes that it will restore their lost er, ah, youth, and feed their pedophilic fantasies.
Davoud
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Traditional speakers are attempting some reasonable level of fidelity. For this application that's not required, so some improvement should be possible.
Sylvia.
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If you measure the actual performance of your speaker, then you can apply reverse distortion to your sound source. What's left are directional effects.
Sylvia.
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In your answer, be aware that the modern loudspeaker is not significantly different to those developed by Rice and Kellog in the late 1920s. The only serius change has been WRT material choice and computer aided design. Various inertial and capacitance sensors have been (and still are) tried to varying degrees of success. Even 'stepper motor' designs have been tried (to disasterous effect), in an atempt to gain efficiency despite the use of a small enclosure. The key to understanding this stuff, is to realise that speakers, without horns, are inherently inefficient and always will be. Horns MUST be used for efficiency to be reasonable. A horn can be looked at, as a kind of acoustic transformer, which mates the relatively heavy mass of the speaker to the low mass of the air. And, before you ask, direct modulation of the air has (and still is) be tried. Ozone is a serious problem with many such designs. Due to various factors surrounding such a system, it is both unreliable (air must be dry and of known atmospheric pressure) and innefficient.
Like I said: If you have something new, please let us know. Inquiring minds want to know.
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There are (or were) some particularly annoying car alarm systems, installed primarily by people who were totally up themselves, which produced a long sequence of sounds. They were certainly loud.
Look back at where this discussion started. The issue is whether intending owners of Porsche and Ferrari vehicles who would dislike the silence of an electric vehicle could be placated by replicating the noise of the engine driven vehicles through loadspeakers.
It is less than clear whether the resulting sound would have to be as loud as the original. Indeed, it might be sufficient to play the sound inside the cabin. Depends on the psychology of those who value the noise that the cars make.
So there are too many unanswered issues for it to be possible to arrive at any concluded view that it's not feasible.
Sylvia.
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There is nothing wrong with hybrid cars.
There is a lot wrong with the outrageous claims made by the wankers that were stupid enough to buy one.
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They sound quite different when heard "free to air" and they sound equally quite different when heard though a common-or-garden sound system. Your point?
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