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- From: deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (A. J. Dean)
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- Subject: Re: time alignment?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:11:36 +0000 (GMT)
- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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- mark vanroojen (msv@unl.edu) wrote:
- : ends from the speaker cone. According to the align the magnets
- : theory, the coil of this speaker should be aligned with that of the
- : other speakers. But if the cone starts moving simultaniously with the
- : coil (which it should if the former is stiff) this will give sound
- : waves coming from the speaker a ten foot head start on those coming
- : from other speaker drivers, thus not time aligning them.
- :
- : My question: Is my reasoning here flawed? I'm not an engineer by
- : profession, so there may well be something I'm missing.
-
- I'm not really qualified to say if it's flawed or not, but I do know
- that I saw some marketing glossies pushing something similar once. They
- said the sound originated (in time) not from where the magnets are, but
- from a point 1/2 way between the height of the edge of the cone and base
- of the cone. Might have been sony. In any case, it basically meant they
- put the woofer (and midrange too) on little spacers to make them poke
- out the front more.
-
- I imagine it is flawed though. I would much rather trus the design of a
- speaker that had this taken into account properly when it was designed
- (measured probably) than some rule of thumb which few people may agree
- with!
-
- Note also that there is a time delay from the voice coil to the cone.
- Jast as with air, it takes time for the pushing and pulling to travel
- thru the metal (or whatever). But it goes very fast (? 3000m/s), and
- even faster still when the force is high enough to make the properties
- nonlinear. The cone also suffers these effects, and that's why drivers
- aren't operated at these frequencies hence crossovers, etc. And if
- they are not operated at frequencies where the time delay is significant
- it doesn't matter. Well, I imagine the story goes something like that.
-
- Antony. (deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)
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