does weather effect performance?

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

if its all in my head, why am i not the only one that has noticed? we all suffer from the same delusions?

 

[bloodhound50 10+ year member]

Reed go into my profile and find all my threads. its the one called temp effecting subs. it has some info you might find valuable.

Ps. remember who i am?

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

yea. the nerd who edited your posts cuz u were talking about something u didnt know anything about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[spoonraker 10+ year member]

I'm sure there is an effect, but it's so small you probably couldn't tell the difference, or if you did it wouldn't be much.

The 50% drop in volume definitely isn't air temperature, that's really severe.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Extreme cold can and will render your speakers' suspension abit stiffer, until enough current passes through the speaker to warm things up and bring suspension compliance back to normal.

However, the denser air theory holds merit too. Generally your stereo should seem louder at night, somewhat from this, somewhat from less background noise, etc.

There is/will be more than one factor, whether they lead up to audible differences, or its merely psychoacoutics, is hard to say. Personally I wouldn't say either way until I did some simple SPL tests to find out. Should be easy enough to do.

 

[TIeclipseMOJO 10+ year member]

but my comps seemed to be about 50% quieter tonight. it wasabout 50degrees. ive noticed it lowers the output on subwoofers, but never noticed it lower output on a component set. so, like a car in cold weather, it has to warm up before u get real performance?

ive never noticed all that much of a difference and in the morning in the winter its sometimes 10 degrees F maybe less.

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

Extreme cold can and will render your speakers' suspension abit stiffer, until enough current passes through the speaker to warm things up and bring suspension compliance back to normal.
However, the denser air theory holds merit too. Generally your stereo should seem louder at night, somewhat from this, somewhat from less background noise, etc.

There is/will be more than one factor, whether they lead up to audible differences, or its merely psychoacoutics, is hard to say. Personally I wouldn't say either way until I did some simple SPL tests to find out. Should be easy enough to do.

loll, mine seems louder when its really sunny... i dunno why.. and at night when there is nobody obviously cuz of less traffic noise...

 

[dyabolical 10+ year member]

A local car shop somewhat proved the cold air thing.

They took a demo car, 95 degree temp inside the cabin, cabin sealed up. Car hit a 135 or so.

They then blasted the AC for a good hour, got the cabin temp into the 70's. Windows of course sealed up, same settings on the system. Car hit a 138.5 or something like that.

Voltage on the battery was monitored and tested under the same exact conditions besides the cabin temp.

Of course...not sure how much i trust the dude that did the test, i wasn't there when they did it.