We’ll see later that box design is dominated by the woofer because of this difference. A woofer emits sound waves from both its front and back side. With a sealed back, the tweeter emits sound waves from the front side only. The tweeter usually has a sealed back while the woofer usually has an open back. It uses a tweeter for the high frequencies and a woofer for the low frequencies.īesides their different size, there is another very significant difference between a tweeter and a woofer. This gives rise to multi-way speaker systems like the two-way system shown above.
#FUTURE THE WIZRD VINYL DRIVERS#
Obviously, these requirements are in opposition so drivers are usually designed to produce only a portion of the sound. To produce high frequencies a driver needs to have a small diaphragm with a low mass. To produce low frequencies a driver needs to have a large diaphragm and enough mass to resonate at a low frequency. Why do drivers come in so many different sizes? Because it is nearly impossible to make one piston driver that can reproduce sound waves over the entire 20 Hz to 20 kHz frequency range of human hearing.
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By far the most common type of driver is the moving coil electrodynamic piston driver. There are many different kinds of drivers but they all do basically the same thing: create sound waves. Let’s examine each part beginning with the drivers. Yet, the speaker is really the entire system, including box, crossover network (if present) and drivers. Sometimes people refer to the drivers as speakers.
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The word "speaker" is the shortened form of the word "loudspeaker" and it refers to a device that converts electrical signals into sound waves that we can hear. Much more information is available in the manuals.
#FUTURE THE WIZRD VINYL MANUALS#
Note: This topic is an excerpt from the on-screen manuals of BassBox ProĪnd BassBox Lite.