Chapter 24. Loudspeaker Enclosures
24.1. Loudspeakers
Knowing a little about loudspeakers, the load that is audio amplifiers’ raison d’etre is a prerequisite to understanding amplifiers. In the following sections—indeed most of the rest of this chapter—those features of loudspeakers that most define or affect the design and specification of power amplifiers are introduced.
24.1.1. Loudspeaker Drive-Unit Basics
There are six main types of speaker drive-units or drivers used for quality audio reproduction. Another name for a driver is a transducer, a reminder that they transduce electric energy into acoustic energy via mechanical energy.
24.1.1.1. Cone Drivers
The most universal, everyday form of the “moving coil” or “electrodynamic” type of ...
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