Understand how speakers work and why they are key to most sound systems
What is the situation? A clear audio stream is processed with state-of-the-art digital processing equipment and amplified by advanced power amplifiers before being delivered to the audience through a tapered paper basin in the wooden speaker body.
The weak link in the chain is the speaker box, commonly known as the loudspeaker. The final sound quality of any system depends entirely on the speaker's ability to reproduce the excellent audio provided by the uplink.
Commercial loudspeakers have experienced a long and steady evolution over the past century. The electronic part of the system, on the other hand, underwent radical changes in its physical properties and research methods at an extremely rapid rate.
However, just because the converter (the speaker) has not kept pace with its electronic counterpart, that does not mean that all is lost.
On the contrary, even the best designs today cannot achieve the amazing performance that people want. Understand how speakers work and why they are key to most sound systems