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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mysearcher257

I think I've experienced situations where strong air flow due to fans or whatever cause sound to resonate in ways not heard when fan is off.

Anyhow clearly many things  (fans, fuses whatever)  CAN affect sound.  The important questions are DOES IT in each specific case or how likely in general .   

The only thing safe to say probably is that no two cases will be exactly the same, no matter what, so what each person hears in each case is likely different for many different reasons.  

Generalizations seldom work out well with hifi sound.   Too many variables to take into account many of which may not even be clear or known.

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Just take a table fan and crank it up. Have one person on one side of the fan talk to you while you are on the other side of the fan. What do you hear? Now tell me if a fan affects the sound, or not.....