For Owners
Home Theater Handbook
Loudspeakers
Part 1
Why are loudspeakers crucial components of home theater?
Why price is not necessarily related to speaker performance?
Why is it important to understand sound and its physical characteristics?
What is sound?
How is the acoustic energy transferred to the air?
How does sound propagate?
How do we describe a wave?
What is the wavelength of an audio wave?
What is the period of an audio wave?
What is the human hearing frequency range? What is the frequency of sound?
What is the speed of sound through air?
What is the relationship of the basic sound wave parameters of the period T, the wavelength Ñ‘, the frequency f and the speed c?
How is the frequency related to the wavelength of the audio wave?
Which frequencies are most difficult to control and why?
What is the role of a loudspeaker?
What complicates the task of speaker manufacturers?
What do speaker manufacturers aim to do?
What energy conversion do loudspeakers perform?
What are some of the challenges speaker manufacturers face?
What is the function of the crossover circuit?
Part 2
What are the types of materials used for the manufacture of tweeter diaphragms?
What are some highly regarded types of tweeters?
What determines the quality of a speaker's cabin?
What kind of diaphragms do middle and low frequency speakers require?
Why are Kevlar and Alucone speakers an industry favorite for middle frequencies?
What are the characteristics of high quality subwoofers?
What are the characteristics of high quality subwoofers?
What are the benefits of using Diecast Baskets in speakers?
Why is a cabinet used in loudspeakers?
What are the ideal characteristics of a loudspeaker's cabinet?
What determines the quality of a loudspeaker's cabinet?
What are the advantages of using Narrow Cabinets?
Why do we need speaker enclosures?
What are the basic types of loudspeaker enclosures?
What is the role of the enclosed air in an acoustic suspension enclosure?
How does the passive radiator behave?
How does a ported enclosure behave?
What are the advantages of horn loaded speakers?
Where are horn speakers primarily used?
What is the task of the subwoofer?
Part 3
What is the difference between active and passive subwoofers?
What are the principles of operation of electrodynamic speakers?
What component is at the heart of electrodyÂnamic speakers?
Where is the voice coil placed?
What is the function of the voice coil?
What is the use of the special liquid (ferrofluid) contained in the tweeters?
What is the correlation between the diaphragm diameter and the driver’s mass?
What is the operation principle of magnetostatic speakers?
What are ribbon speakers?
What is the difference between electrostatic and magnetostatic speakers?
What is the characteristic of electrostatic speakers?
What do we mean by "active" speakers?
How are the drivers of a dipole speaker placed?
Why do common speakers interfere with the TV?
How do we magnetically shield a speaker?
What are the advantages of a subwoofer/satellite speaker system?
What is the difference between two and three way speakers?
What is speaker sensitivity why is it important?
What is the use of speaker stands?
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