Terminology: what is ringing?

I would like to know what do you mean when you say there is ringing in the music.

What do you hear exactly in the music?

I am interested in knowing if you are all talking about the same thing and if that effects the music in the same way from everybody.

thanks

 

Technically, ringing is when the speaker cone keeps moving after the signal has stopped.

 

Don't you call it also ringing when someone claps the hand in a corner and you hear some 'metallic' sound after the clap? That means 'distortions' created by the room characteristics.

 

bells

 

ringing is when someones makes one working amp out of sevral broken amps and changes the serial numbers to suit

 

edited ! sorry mo.

 

I think you mean an echo?

 

Nope, not echo.
And another point: it seems that also racks can 'ring'! You don't hear it directly from the rack but in the music from the loudspeakers.
Never had that?

It's sunday! who is going to ring the church bells first?

 

Please don't be offended Chris, but I found it quite enlightening that you were the first to respond to Titian's question

 

edited! sorry John, the accusation was very unfair IMO.

 

Sorry Mike, I felt I should edit out the accusation. QUOTE]

John, just for the record, some of my best friends are gay and have a great sense of humour (ie they would find the inferrence funny!)

I take it John that you are straight in both the sexual and sense of humour interpretations?

 

I dont know if people have edited their posts or not, but the thread as it looks now appears completely fine to me.

Theres nothing that I would call homophobic.

Move along folks, theres nothing to see!!

 

I bet they are

j/k

 

Sorry John, edited also.

btw my sexuality is noyb and my SOH is developed to the point that it doesn't exist any more

john

 

What a curious thread

I thought Titian's question was plain enough. What is ringing in the music (note: *MUSIC*, nothing to do with bums MO )

It's all to do with resonance. If you apply an impulse to an object which is constrained so that it can oscillate, then it will continue to oscillate after the impulse is finished. This applies to a speaker cone as much as it does to the air in a room or the shell of a bell. Speaker designers have sleepless nights trying to dream of ways to control resonance so that a speaker cone follows the music signal and nothing more. This is where damping comes into play. However, too much damping and you throw the baby out with the bathwater. This also applies to rooms as much as to speaker cones.

So Merlin, what was significant about my being first to reply? I am an engineer after all. I know what resonance is and I know what ringing is.

BTW, MO - I think you were thinking of 'rimming' which is quite a different thing

 

Thanks Chris,

it seems you are the only one here who:
- isn't too much influenced by April and Spring-time
- who might be interested about 'ringing'

I was thinking of writing about my experiences with 'ringing' and resonances this weekend but due to how this thread evolved, I believe nobody would be interested.

That's it.

regards

 

Please everyone, stick to the thread... Ive done some editing to prevent offense, there were some unfair accusations, and a joke that caused offense.

Hopefully everyone thinks Ive been even handed.. nothing about hifi has been removed.

 

tb writes

''So Merlin, what was significant about my being first to reply? I am an engineer after all. I know what resonance is and I know what ringing is.

BTW, MO - I think you were thinking of 'rimming' which is quite a different''

i rest my case

 

What case? Am I missing something here

 

apologiies if i took your post as to mean you were miffed. you are obvioulsy comfy with the thread