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Speaker Myths

PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:02 pm
by Scott DeVarenne
I am trying to understand. Please help me. So much BS everywhere.

http://www.preference-audio.com/phaseplug.htm
First paragraph:
"In any conventional loudspeaker, the highest frequencies of audio emanate from the area around the center of the cone
and the lower frequencies are produced by the area of the cone that is farther from the center. In fact, the distance
from the center at which a sound wave will come off a loudspeaker cone is directly related to its frequency.
This helps explain why larger cone loudspeakers are usually capable of producing more bass."

Total bullshit, right? Right?

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Re: Speaker Myths

PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:16 pm
by Malcolm Boyce
Scott DeVarenne wrote:Total bullshit, right? Right?
You are correct...

There is much more to a driver's frequency response than diameter.

There is something to be said for localization of high frequencies in the center of a driver, but I think that's were that article leaves the fact highway.

Drivers all the way down to less than an inch can reproduce the bottom octave of "audio". At a low level of course, but I think that is a good indicator of the relationship between diameter and frequency.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:21 pm
by macrae11
As with all of this type of crap, there are grains of truth spread out to give an air of legitimacy.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:22 pm
by Scott DeVarenne
This makes more sense to me:
"Second, all frequencies are radiated from all moving parts of the cone. When you place a mic at the center of the cone, it is closest to equidistant from each point on the cone. The distances that sound must travel from each point on the cone to the mic are very similar, and therefore the contributions from each part of the cone sum coherently. When you place the mic in an off-center position, the distances that sound must travel from parts of the cone to the mic vary over a much wider range. This causes phase and amplitude differences between arrivals from different parts of the cone. The phase differences cause cancellations, and, due to their shorter wavelengths, the cancellations are greater at higher frequencies. "- Jay Mitchell.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... 956&page=3

PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:36 pm
by Scott DeVarenne
Also, I don't question that the phase plug effects how sound radiates from a speakers.
I am speculating that it works in a similar fashion to this:
http://www.webervst.com/blocker.html
It's pretty much just a dust cap mounted on a stick.

I am trying out the foam doughnut thingy.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=470956