Something weird happens when I take my headphones off

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
If something is moving away from you (like your headphones) it goes lower, not higher.

I really don't know what the answer is to this, but doppler effect makes no sense to me.

Call yourself "Soundman"? :beer:

sorry

:heart::beer:

Maybe ribbon13 could shine some light on the matter.

I was thinking for a while that maybe they need an enclosed space to get the bass right, but then duh, I have closed cans but open air ones wouldn't be an enclosed area... so I still don't know what's going on.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Oh, and the amount of stuff I've learned in physics that applies to real life is shockingly bad.

Same with Computer Science BSc. Seriously, Mr Professor, I don't need to know the intricate details of an ISA slot, or SIMMs. It's not 1990 anymore.

:Q It's not!?

This thread is bringing my whole reality crashing down around me!

:laugh:

Seriously, in the first few lectures of the first year, he brought out a Socket-5 motherboard. I was .

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Oh, and the amount of stuff I've learned in physics that applies to real life is shockingly bad.

But....

...nooooooooOOOOOOoooOOOO!

The extent of speaker stuff I've done is some rudimentary work on proving that you should match impedences in circuits to transfer max power to speakers... that's about it.

Oh, and some standing wave stuff back in HS.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Oh, and the amount of stuff I've learned in physics that applies to real life is shockingly bad.

Same with Computer Science BSc. Seriously, Mr Professor, I don't need to know the intricate details of an ISA slot, or SIMMs. It's not 1990 anymore.

:laugh:

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Nik
From simple googling (for "dopper effect in layman's terms") and not just clicking on the first link and giving up, here's what I've found.

Everyone has heard Doppler effect, even if they don't know what it is. It's why a train horn or ambulance siren appears to change sound as it approaches you. The sound waves emitted from the siren or horn get squashed up because the vehicle is coming towards you, so their frequency goes up.

the Doppler effect changes the pitch of sound depending on whether the source is moving closer or farther away

Right, so if this was an effect where the headphones moving towards you rapidly caused it, then doppler would make sense.

Since these are moving away though, doppler would have the opposite effect (the lower note when a train passes you with its horn going)

I think this has to do with directionality of sound and, but from what I remember from HS is that low sounds travel easier (coupled with my own experience that I can hear my SVS thumping from farther away than my tweeters)