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RE: How do they work?

howdy Rick. Now don't be to hasty with your assumptions about me being knowledgable about stuff cause that'll leave you looking silly. I really wasn't aware of commercially available products until morricab brought it upand had just had my interest piqued many years ago fresh into my first position. One of the guys that was sort of mentoring me at the time was a bit eccentric and told me about flame speakers and showed me a short article on them. I'll definitely have to defer to morricabs greater experience with the commercially available stuff and the designs they use but I did find this old popular electronics article when I did a search.

I'm going out into not well understood territory her so please bear with me. High voltage induced spark gaps always have a bunch of acoustic noise with them even unmodulated. Why? I am unsure. Probably due to some rearranging of molecules for thermal reasons...don't know for sure. On the other hand chemical reaction flames can be pretty quiet when unmodulated. When the flame is something like burning wood you even get great impedance matching with the surrounding air. I can't explain why one flame type is quieter than the other but it seems obvious why one type might yield more pleasing results.



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