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Subject: Re: Stylus Recorder
From: "Bruce Wilson" bruceumba
Date: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:58 am ((PDT))
Within the last week there was a video podcast, in the Discovery Channel
news channel (I think), about a researcher studying spider mating rituals.=

Using a laser microphone (sort of an interferometer, I think) he recorded
the sound the male spider made, in addition to waving legs around. Turns ou=
t
most of the show was sound (well, vibration, spiders don't have ears), not=

motion. Very interesting, with sound that had surprising fidelity and littl=
e
noise. The sound stage was made of nylon hose material in a needlepoint
frame.

An option, anyway. Probably more expensive than the phono cartridge.

Bruce Wilson KF7K
http://science.uvsc.edu/wilson



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