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Just in case you are confused it is a loudspeaker. I am told. BTW, I understand the tweeter. Well, roughly.
Around $145,000.
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Basically, it receives an AC (Alternating Current - look it up) electrical signal which has been modulated by an audio signal (this is very complicated.) Then, the signal causes the outer "skin" of the device to move according to the modulation, which is often music but may be any type of "sound". The motion of the device subsequently causes the air around it to move "back and forth", and this air motion is propagated outward (in what is commonly referred to as a "wave" motion) to other, and successively more distant, air molecules. In some cases, some of these "oscillating" air molecules impinge upon a person's eardrums (more correctly called the "tympanic membrane"), triggering a series of biological events involving the middle ear ossicles and the inner ear cochlea, and which are interpreted by the brain as "sound".Hope this helps.
Dang, now I can't get my tongue out of my cheek!
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Ur late for ur Mensa Society Meeting....
Hahahahahaha!
It's tough to be smarter than most. It's a cross that I bear.
LOL
172 posts in 14 years? Clearly, you have better things to do than I.
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That sounds too complicated to me. I would rather just have a regular speaker.
What does the stapes do?
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Isn't "ossicles" a great word? I'm going to introduce it into conversation on every opportunity I get " What ho, old bean, how's yer ossicles?" that kind of thing.
That's a transducer. A transponder works in the opposite direction. As a pair, operated under water, they are called sonar.
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Hahahahahaha!!
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So you didn't mention presence of magnetic flux lines, shall I
asuume that it's a piezo or electrostatic transducer?. 8-).
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If the cylinders are made of a material that physically distorts when a voltage is applied, then it's a variation on the piezoelectric transducer. I worked at a place where we used much smaller cylinders as hydrophones in water.
The old Linaeum tweeter..........
It sure would be nice to know what brand and model loudspeaker you're talking about. Perhaps there's a website that explains how it works. There's nearly always something written somewhere about new products. Have you made any attempt to look for additional information online?
Thanks,
John Elison
Very remiss of me, John. It's from a firm called Audio Consulting and it doesn't appear to have a product name but is described as a " Rubanoide Dvaijnoy with Rubabass 2 and Super Tweeter System." None the wiser after that. I did discover a view of the prototype tubular drivers with an explanation that I had problems fathoming, hence my posting.I think Coner's explanation that they are mid and bass versions of the Linaeum tweeter is right and now I think I get it.
Maybe I'll be lucky enough to hear a pair at next year's Munich show ( if that comes off for me, planning stage only at the moment) as they are very interesting. I regularly used to hear a pair of those Radio Shack bookshelf speakers with the Linaeum tweeter and know that the principle has much promise.
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I suspect that it's same as the Linaeum mids/tweeters design, nothing
new. Even Radio Shack sold the tweeters as an add-on decades ago.Flexible membrane cylinders driven in between with a vertical
voice coil in a magnetic field. They can sound good if high quality
and if they use the right the membrane material.
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Thanks. Yes that makes sense.
As I said in my posting above to John Elison's response, maybe they will be demonstrating at Munich next year. Not that my audio budget enters that sphere.
I just visited their web site. They have some very stunning and interesting stuff.
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