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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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Low frequency vibration. Bad vibes. Bad fan, bad!
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I suspect it would tend to flatten the soundstage vertically.


Yes, I'm only joking. 
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If you had a big fan on the wall behind the speakers the sound waves would be blown faster than the speed of sound so you should hear the sonic boom right after you turn on the fan.
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Not sure I feel as if my chains were rattled however I do have a slight sense of creepiness. I hear that Czarivey is easily rattled, though.  ;-)

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Lalitk wrote,

"OP, ceiling fans and AC blowers definitely affect the sound. Remember, sound is air in motion. I keep my fan on low to medium speed."

By that logic sound traveling through physical objects like wood or glass would require the wood or water molecules to move.  Sound is wood in motion?  I don't think so.

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Please correct me if I'm out of line here but isn't there a forum protocol that forbids cross thread stalking?  
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geoffkait3,299 posts04-26-2016 3:52pmNot sure I feel as if my chains were rattled however I do have a slight sense of creepiness. I hear that Czarivey is easily rattled, though. ;-)

To which Czarivey responded,

"As always, Geoff, you’re missing point, but as before mentioned, learning is never late."

There was a point? Shirley you jest.



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All joking aside, bowls of cold water on the floor out in front of the speakers are the only way to fly if it's modifying the way acoustic waves propagate through air you're after.
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It would seem rather unlikely that the air blown by the ceiling fan at say 5 ft/sec would have any audible impact on the acoustic waves produced by the speakers that travel at the speed of sound, I.e., 1100 ft/sec. The fan would blow orthogonal to the entire waveform simultaneous so distortion to the acoustic waves if any would be minimal. Whereas bowls of cold H2O on the floor out in front of the speakers will undoubtedly affect the acoustic waves and the sound. And for the better.
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