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Post by robbiegong on Jul 21, 2021 16:05:22 GMT
Have any of you experienced a lessening or change in sq as a result of the atmospheric humidy in your room ?
I've read some interesting stuf on it and I'd say I do and have
In a nutshell and apparently approximately 35% to 40% humidity is ideal. Too dry and the sound is thin and lifeless. Too humid and dynamics suffer along with transparency.
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Post by rexton on Jul 21, 2021 19:17:23 GMT
Yes I've noticed changes to SQ, usually worse.
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Post by robbiegong on Jul 21, 2021 19:49:54 GMT
Spot on Andy, lots to it and not surprising when you think about it. It's the extreme, like we're currently experiencing, with this really high humidity, the air / atmosphere is 'thick' / heavy, denser, for want of a better descriptive, but you get the gist, which affects the way the sound moves /travels. If you don't know, you can be tempted to start fiddling, adjusting and meddling - dont !  |
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Post by rexton on Jul 21, 2021 20:39:33 GMT
I never usually listen in this weather anyway. It's usually like an oven in my room due to it being very well insulated. Probably better to restore a deck or two.
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Post by robbiegong on Jul 21, 2021 20:43:21 GMT
I never usually listen in this weather anyway. It's usually like an oven in my room due to it being very well insulated. Probably better to restore a deck or two. Yeah, it's blinkin well hot n humid in my system room, no air and sq is compromised. |
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Post by antonio on Jul 22, 2021 2:02:17 GMT
I am not going to say humidity won't change the sound, but in hot weather, you are not always in the right mind for serious listening, so it is no surprise the system does not sound as good as usual
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Post by macca on Jul 22, 2021 5:58:00 GMT
I've had a humidity sensor in my room for a few years now, in winter it's generally between 45 and 55 percent, more on a really wet day.
Right now it's 62%, the ideal range for indoors is between 45% and 55% - I've never seen it higher than 68%. In the kitchen in the winter I've seen it up to 90% - I have a de-humidifier in there and run it when the humidity gets over 75%, it's surprising the amount of water it takes out of the air on days like that. A couple of pints an hour.
I don't know what the ideal is for sound transmission in air. I'd guess since the more humid the air the slower sound will travel through it, you notice when out and about in a thick fog (very high humidity) noise levels are supressed, so maybe with high humidity in room we will not hear 'fine detail' as easily.
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Post by optical on Jul 22, 2021 7:01:14 GMT
My Quads never liked it . . . . .
Weird but sound waves actually travel faster at higher humidity. Totally illogical to me but it's the facts.
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Post by macca on Jul 22, 2021 9:13:56 GMT
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Post by robbiegong on Jul 22, 2021 9:24:45 GMT
My Quads never liked it . . . . . Weird but sound waves actually travel faster at higher humidity. Totally illogical to me but it's the facts. True, I read that, doesn't make sense but yeah, tis the case. Either way high humidity, such as we've been having doesn't have a positive effect on our precious sq in my experience. |
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Post by robbiegong on Jul 22, 2021 9:33:43 GMT
Bit like cables and interconnects for some then - not audible..... At the same time there are many who say they can hear a level of degrading of sq, in a high humidity atmosphere, I can |
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Post by macca on Jul 22, 2021 11:28:21 GMT
well without any evidence the jury is still out. I still think based on how fog seems to damp sound there must be some effect. But there doesn't seem to be any tests or experiments done on this, not that I can find anyway.
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