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jasonwatkinspdxyesterday at 8:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

You're not generating a 7 hz tone on any sort of conventional audio gear, and definitely not a pc speaker.


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clolegeyesterday at 11:02 PM

The SVS PB-17 Ultra advertises a range of 12-220Hz at -3dB. I imagine it could play a pure 7Hz tone if you turn it up.

And most speakers can play infrasound for many non-sinusoidal waveforms [0]. They'll drop the fundamental and some lower-end harmonics but can still give a sense of what it sounds like

[0] https://szynalski.com/tone#7,saw,v0.5

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tzstoday at 4:22 PM

Who said the source has to stationary? Doppler shift for the win.

zahlmantoday at 3:13 AM

If I feed a 7hz input to some cheap hand-made thing like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liSEwqdq7aA , will it not vibrate at 7hz and thus produce a 7hz "tone" (disregarding that humans won't perceive that as sound, at least not the fundamental)?

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conradojordantoday at 3:53 PM

You can with your hands, just shake them