[Jukebox-list] skipping record

[Wesley Dean]

    Ron, I would like to have one of these units that would control the volume in the car sitting next to me at a traffic light. Wes
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From: "Ron Rich" <ronnnrich at yahoo.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] skipping record


Wes,
  Perhaps Seeburg's designers saw (stole) the Aireion unit-- This one was pretty much the same thing, and the description you give matches my memory of how it worked--mike and all--
  Ron Rich
  
Wesley Dean <wesleydean at cox.net> wrote:
  Ron, Aireion had an optional ALC. The demonstration I was exposed to was in a location and the test juke installed. There was a microphone connected to the juke and placed in a far corner of the room. The theory was if the microphone couldn't hear the music, it would get louder. The salesman played a record and when it started playing, he went to the kitchen and got a large ladle and a big pot As he walked round the room beating on the pot, the juke got louder and louder. The salesman was smiling and I hollered great. He leaned over to me and asked what I had said. I hollered again louder this time and the juke got louder. He stopped beating on the pot and I stopped hollering. The system must've got confused because the was still getting louder. It may have been a good idea, but I think it needed some major tweaking. The way it was supposed to work was music from the juke was supposed to cancel the out of phase music the microphone sent back to the juke What was not taken
 in consideration was the phase shift in propagating music across the distance from the juke and mike. Wes 
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