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Neodymium??
- Thread starter gimmethelowend
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Those Neodymium magnets are some kind of powerful.
I was measuring the other day to get a microphone 10" from the cabinet & the end of my tape measure got stuck to the grill.
I was measuring the other day to get a microphone 10" from the cabinet & the end of my tape measure got stuck to the grill.
This is a zombie thread, but I would just like to reiterate that there is nothing to say that a Neodymium speaker will sound worse than a ceramic one. However, I still prefer ceramic for completely unrelated reasons.
If I ever want to degauss a cassette tape, I'll just leave it on my 2x10 for a minute.
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BurningSkies
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Regular speaker cabs work for this too. Back in the 'old tech' days of samplers/keys that needed sounds loaded from disks, I had a keyboard player put his box of sample disks in the back of an open backed guitar amp for load in at a show...guess what was blank for the show that night.
I hate being that guy this morning. But, a static field will polarize a tape actually making it less capable of reuse. Degaussing a tape is done with a changing field (AC electromagnet) to randomize the tape. Lesson of semi-useful information for the day.
BurningSkies
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I hate being that guy this morning. But, a static field will polarize a tape actually making it less capable of reuse. Degaussing a tape is done with a changing field (AC electromagnet) to randomize the tape. Lesson of semi-useful information for the day.
You may be over estimating it's usefulness.
You may be over estimating it's usefulness.
No underestimation of its destructiveness. A reuse of media after magnetization (as opposed to demagnetization) would yield poor results. The importance of my posting is so folks won't trash their tapes this way.
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I still have some VHS tapes. I also have some DAT and ADAT (high grade VHS) tapes around. I would bet B and C tape carts may still be in use at some radio stations? This does apply to floppy discs (if someone has any around still) and even hard drives (not SSD). Magnetic recording materials are still in camcorder use as well.
So yes sound, but also video and data.
Yeah, I'm careful to keep my hard drives away from speakers. I've heard, whether urban myth or not, of folks putting their laptop on a speaker cabinet & getting a nice big corrupted disc.
I would bet more a possibility than urban myth. Laptops get cheaper and things like magnetic shielding gets left behind. Newer units that have SSD (Solid State Drives) avoid this of course, no magnetic media to disturb (much faster access also).
Heck yes!! I came for the light weight and stayed for the great sound. Neos rock (IMHO)!
In my experience Neodymium sucks, not because of the sound or magnetic properties, but because the neodymium capsules overheat and burst like old batteries, when the amps are pushed to the limits. I personally witnessed the failure with my speaker technician. The best magnetic material is Alnico! Period.
