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Re: "the expected Newtonian action-re-action does not occur here"

Actually it must occur here. I think it's inarguable that Newton's law has to apply so there will be a reaction. The only question then becomes where it is.

You followed on with "Perhaps there is some degree of action-re-action but if there is, it is not only nothing like what this former subscriber to the conventional wisdom would have expected, it is insignificant relative to the consistent, across the board improvements in the system's ability to retrieve information from the recordings."

Newton says that the reaction has to be equal and opposite and the location of that reaction which is mechanical - after all, this is a law of mechanics - is to be found in the movement of the bearing. That movement will be equal and opposite in terms of energy to the movement entering the bearing from outside. So, if you want to see the Newtonian reaction, you just need to look at the movement of the speaker on the bearings. It's all there and it will be exactly what you would expect.

The sonic effects are defintiely a result of those mechanical reactions but there are two aspects to them. We could relate the change in the soundwaves produced to the movement in the bearing, even if it would be a lengthy and difficult process and that part of the explanation would not explain the impact those changes in the sound have on you which is a psychoacoustical effect governed by different principles entirely.

What you're looking for seems to be a direct relationship of some sort between the mechanical effect which occurs at the point of isolation of the speaker, and the psychoacoustical which occurs within your brain and you're not going to find that. There is a relationship but it's indirect and the scales are very different with a non-linear aspect to the psychoacoustic effects and an even more non-linear aspect to the value you place on the psychoacoustic effects. That explains why you find things "out of scale" to coin a phrase which attempts to describe your perception of a discrepancy between cause and effect. The mechanical cause and effect, or action and reaction to go back to Newton, will definitely be in scale with each other. They need not be in scale with your perceptions and the value you place on changes in those perceptions, and definitely aren't in this case.

That shouldn't be at all surprising if you really stop and think about it.

David Aiken


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