Horns for loudspeakers are fascinating devices. Horn designs can include a variety of horn sizes and shapes and, for many, it is a mystery what these horns are actually doing.  Horn design is an...

If you're an audio engineer, then you probably know all about nearfield speakers. But for those of us who are less familiar with the term, nearfield speakers are loudspeakers that are designed to be...

Any sound engineer will tell you that one of the most important pieces of equipment in their arsenal is a good pair of headphones. But not just any headphones will do—they need to fit well. Some...

Speaker manufacturers run power tests on their new speaker designs before releasing them to the public. You can typically check what power tests they have completed on a speaker by looking at the...

Having worked within the field of acoustic simulation for loudspeaker drivers for over 10 years, I have become very familiar with the large variety of acoustic simulation software on the...

Large displacement analysis is a fundamental simulation technique used by design engineers across a variety of engineering disciples.  For speaker design, large displacement analysis is an...