If you try to tune adjacent stings of a guitar to the same pitch using harmonics you do it by gradually tuning one string up to match the other. In the process you hear increasingly slower "beats" as you move closer to the actual pitch of the other string. If a fan is on you can’t do this because the "beats" never go away. So fans are affecting musical sounds in a subtle but strange way. My wife had the ceiling fan removed from her (piano) teaching area for this reason. It drove her bats. I don’t notice it much when I’m not tuning an instrument by ear (I don’t use electronic tuners).
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?
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