Does the ceiling fan affect the sound?


Hi everyone,

The ceiling fans generate a large wind in the center of my listening room....Duh.

The tweeter's tiny movements are minuscule especially when compared to the giant fan blade motion. 

I think this is affecting the quality of sound. To me, this seems similar to trying to watch the ripples from a pebble through a boat wake. The ripples get lost in the larger waves. 

Of course I can turn on the A/C, but that has a whole other set of noise issues. 

What do you think?  Do you hear a difference when the ceiling fan is on?

Thanks,
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Showing 1 response by donzi

If I understand the question correctly (and I'm a newbie, so you can take all this into consideration), but if you're asking if the fan breeze alters speaker output, if it were a solid breeze (at whatever normal speed), I don't think so, the "pulses" of a speaker push back against whatever is against it, whether zero or .1 feet per second. I would think (again, presuming constant), it might change the frequency a fraction, much in the order of a train coming toward you, then going away. But if the train (or music) keeps coming toward you, you'll never notice. In JEA48's post, that sound that we've all heard, I believe requires you to be that close, where the relative chopped sound distances are significant: Two feet back from that same fan, and you don't hear that. Just my thoughts.