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http://www.sonicflare.com/arch...d.phpRumours there is a car version in the works!Oh - and near as I can research - this is real, honest, hard tech.... no vapour-ware here.Make sure to read Part 2 and Part 3 as well.

I bet it has some pretty poor response to frequency changes though. It would have to overcome the kinetic energy of the spinning blades in oder to speed or slow them for the next tone.I can see it working with playing long, constant tones, but not music.And if they call this design a "subwoofer" then it's not the most powerful...helicopter blades would be the most powerful. Helicopter blades or that speaker from Back to the Future.

True enough - I certainly don't know enough about the technology to say - though I'm going to watch this one closely to see how it develops. I sure don't quite understand how they're producing the tones - whether through the speed of the blades or a combination with pitch and/or a vibration? As for the helicopter reference - okay, but tough to get into your living room.

You know what cracks me up about this is that most audio components can't reproduce sound frequencies below 20 Hz to begin with. CDs surely aren't encoded with soundwave data below 20Hz and I doubt seriously that DVDs have that data either. Then the player device, preamp and amplifier have their own limitations as well.

Quote, originally posted by Mase »I bet it has some pretty poor response to frequency changes though. It would have to overcome the kinetic energy of the spinning blades in oder to speed or slow them for the next tone.I can see it working with playing long, constant tones, but not music.And if they call this design a "subwoofer" then it's not the most powerful...helicopter blades would be the most powerful. Helicopter blades or that speaker from Back to the Future.They say it has a flat frequency response to 1Hz. Responding to "changes" is all part of that. I'm sure it would play music just fine.