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This has been bugging me

mobobuff

mobobuff

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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!?!?
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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

*rubs chin* I'll do some reading on that.
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?
Click to expand...

Why yes, yes I have. *flex* 😉

Maybe I'll submit my question to Beakman and Jax
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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

*rubs mobobuff's shoulders* have you been working out, baby?
Click to expand...

Why yes, yes I have. *flex* 😉

Maybe I'll submit my question to Beakman and Jax
Click to expand...

can you unclench now? my hand's stuck 😕
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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.
 
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!?!?
Click to expand...

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

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.
Click to expand...

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

*unflex*
 
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