Flyback Questions

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by etype2

Electronic M,

I'm very intrigued by your descriptions of the plasma speaker. In theory a perfect sound source with zapping visual effects. How cool is that. :-)

Oh, it was very cool. I brought that thing to my college when I built it, and several of my peers and professors were rather wowed by it. There are some very interesting youtube videos of plasma speakers in action. Mine had very little bass response (typical/expected), and some issues with the arc producing white noise that I never had time to sort out, but it was the most linear tweeter I can recall hearing. Electronic music like Threashold from Steve Miller Band's Book of Dreams album had an almost unreal crispness, clarity and accuracy compared to listening to such tracks on cone or horn tweeters.

Life kinda buried me in work (then distracted me) when I built mine as a proof of concept, but I do plan to eventually get back on refining some into a practical system.