[sdiy] Car stereo play-the-loudest-championship!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:21, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> On 4/26/07, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
> > I wonder, they have these car play-the-loudest-championship,
> > what tone or composite sound frame at which pitch gives the
> > highest movement of air? Ie dB.
> >
> >
> > KD
>
> I think it would depend on the resonant frequency of the car's
> interior. If you could find that frequency, then that would help you
> maximize the amount of air movement you would get out of the stereo
> system. The response peaks of the stereo system would also pay a key
> role. The scientific approach would be to plot the resonant peaks of
> the car's interior, overlay those with a graph of the response of the
> stereo, find the frequencies where the two plots coincide, and then
> look for music with similar frequency peaks.  In practice however, I
> think it comes down to "play a bunch of tunes and see what sounds /
> feels loudest." Oh, and the tune has to have lots of thumpin' bass.
> ;-)
>
>
> Tim (def dumb and blind jam) Servo

And then of course there's the issue of whether you point those speakers 
toward the rear for better gas mileage,  or up for better traction...  :-)

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