Speaker compliance is an interesting factor in speaker design. Although a relatively simple concept to understand compared to Thiele / Small parameters, it is an important parameter for effective...
Category: Speaker Design
What Is The Difference Between STL & STEP Files? (Explained)
I have been working with STL(.stl) & STEP (.stp) files as part of my design engineering CAD profession for nearly 15 years now. In that time, I have learned (often the hard way) the benefits and...
Speaker operation can be hard to comprehend at first. However, once you break down a speaker into its component parts, it can be much easier to see how the parts fit and work together to create...
Cone breakup is a phenomenon that all speaker designers must work with. I have spent many hours trying to “shift” cone breakup out of the speaker listening range or trying dozens of engineering...
Speaker dust caps are very easy to spot on a speaker and are located in the middle of the speaker cone. In fact, you may think the speaker dust cap is a primary component in sound generation, but its...
When I first started working as an engineer in the loudspeaker industry, the term "speaker motor" really confused me. It is a term often used by speaker designers, but what does it mean and is there...