This has been bugging me

[mobobuff]

A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

 

[So]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

*rubs chin* I'll do some reading on that.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

*rubs chin* I'll do some reading on that.

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

*rubs chin* I'll do some reading on that.

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?

Why yes, yes I have. *flex*

Maybe I'll submit my question to Beakman and Jax

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

*rubs chin* I'll do some reading on that.

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?

Why yes, yes I have. *flex*

Maybe I'll submit my question to Beakman and Jax

can you unclench now? my hand's stuck

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

Yeah, what he said.

Basically, the waves "overlap" and you still hear them both. It's still a miracle to me that a human brain can still percieve two tones out of the mess of a wave form that it creates, tho.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mobobuff
A speaker works on the principle of vibration to produce different tones and pitches and amplitudes and whatnot, right? So how can one speaker assembly produce a very low sound and a very high sound at the same time? To produce the low sound, it would need to vibrate at a very low frequency, and the coil would have to expand and contract in greater distances. And to produce the high frequency, it needs to vibrate at a more rapid and short frequency. SO HOW THE HELL DOES ONE SPEAKER COIL DO THIS AT THE SAME TIME!?

Say you've got a speaker rated to produce sounds in the 40Hz to 11,000Hz range. It starts producing a very low sound at about 50Hz, now all of the sudden it splices in a 10KHz sound, a very high note. You can hear both just fine, so what the heck's going on!?!?

It's called wave superposition, it's a fundamental topic in any real (i.e. not trig based) college phyisics program.

Yeah, what he said.

Basically, the waves "overlap" and you still hear them both. It's still a miracle to me that a human brain can still percieve two tones out of the mess of a wave form that it creates, tho.

I figured that it had to have some brain-end processing. The human brain is crazy :Q

*unflex*