Gerald White wrote,
>I have seen a couple posts indicating that the sound from small
>speakers, say two watts, has limited projection in the outdoors. I
>interpret from this that live bird song may carry farther. Why
>doesn't sound from speakers project well in the outdoors? Would a
>small birds live song carry a longer distance than it's recorded
>song played through a two watt speaker? A two watt speaker at
>close range sounds pretty loud to me when something is played over
>it. I wouldn't interpret small bird live song as being any louder.
>Is there something different between the sounds? If it is just
>volume, how much power would it take to replicate a small birds live
>song.
I hope someone has some figures on bird SPLs, that would be very
interesting. I can contribute two points: 1) birds are incredibly
efficient sound producers, and 2) a typical non-horn speaker is only
5-10% efficient.
-Dan Dugan
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