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   From: zekor@comcast.net   
      
   Dick Pierce  wrote:   
   > gregz wrote:   
   >> Just thinking, I was using higher density stuffing amounts that would   
   >> ordinarily be used, but my short line was just that, short. A full line   
   >> would show more delay but using a lot less stuffing, so the delay would   
   >> probably be no more than 15%, perhaps closer to 10% .   
   >   
   > No, it wouldn't.   
   >   
   > You're not looking at "delay" per se as in propogation delay   
   > down a transmission line. You're simply looknig at the fact   
   > that at those wavelengths, the line is acting as a simple   
   > damped resonator.   
   >   
   > In other words, all the bobonsense you read about lines   
   > ignores that they are behaving just like a bass reflex   
   > with a whopping big port, a tiny volume, and a lot of   
   > damping.   
      
      
   That's no fun.   
      
   I never tried to make one, but I guess they were interesting to me.   
      
   Greg   
      
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