Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

RE: No fooling

It does amplitude-frequency equalization, too, in many cases.

Not by 20-30 db at the top! High quality tweeters naturally operate to 20 kHz and beyond without any need for boosting.

Technically, this does not make sense at all.

Perhaps to you.

As Kal indicated, using a four inch piston to reproduce a one inch wavelength (and smaller) creates inconsistent directivity through its range. Then, placing a large number of them together spaced greater than the wavelengths reproduced creates copious amounts of comb filtering, aka "chaotic interference" which kills coherence.

What does "forcing" technically mean?

Using artificial means for a driver to reproduce frequencies beyond its inherent bandwidth. A 4.5" driver is good to about 3 khz for consistent directivity. That's why they call them midranges!



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