On Thursday 17 April 2014 18:12:12 Hans Wilmers did opine: > On 04/16/2014 02:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Sound is nominally 720 miles per hour. Rather leisurely IOW. > > A perfect cable is C speed, 258 times faster. But cable (coaxial) > > actually range in speeds between 66% of C for home usable cables, to > > around 98% of C for 9" diameter high power broadcast stuff, C being > > 186,272 miles per second in a vacuum. Thats 298,035.2 kilometers per > > second for the metric folks here. > > Just a tiny comment to the speed ratio: There is a missing factor > seconds/hour. Light is travelling in the magnitude of one million faster > than sound in air. > Gack! I hate it when I miss the obvious stuffs. So 258 or 259 *3600 for the speed ratio in round figures. Round figures light is 930,600 times faster than sound. Definitely my bad. Open reply, insert foot fresh from mouth. Duh! > / Hans > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
