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Re: material for DPA Windpac?

Subject: Re: material for DPA Windpac?
From: "Jeremiah Moore" jeremiahmoore99
Date: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:58 pm (PDT)
The windpac seems to be made of some kind of microfiber polyester which
has no fuzziness at all to the finish - almost shiny smooth.  Thickness
wise it's thinner than a t-shirt, thicker than a silk handkerchief.
Acoustically it's very transparent - almost no rolloff at any frequency.

Hmm...  I have a friend who's involved in fabric design - maybe I can get
her take on the material sometime.

-j



On Mon, August 28, 2006 11:47 am, cfmspencer wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what material is used in the DPA Windpac?
> it seems more silk-like than 'fake fur'. perhaps it
> is more transparent to high freqs as well?
>
> thanks
> clay
>
>
>
> --- In  "Bruce Wilson"
> <> wrote:
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>>  http://tinyurl.com/fy73h for the cut-and-paste impaired.
>>
>> Not a wholly convincing setup when the author/builder says he had
> to lower
>> the sound level to "get good sound". The level was so low he had
> to speak
>> directly into a shotgun mic to be heard, which means we have no
> hope of
>> hearing the silk bag rustle in the wind. We could barely hear the
> fan
>> running next to the mic.
>>
>>
>> Bruce Wilson
>> http://science.uvsc.edu/wilson
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