Posted by Earl Geddes [ 69.209.157.233 ] on June 06, 2005 at 07:58:55:

In Reply to: Re: Compressiondrivers in general posted by Rapid on June 06, 2005 at 03:54:28:

Basically I don't have dealers for my speakers anywhere. I build them here and sell them from the web. This is what allows me to keep the prices low.

In discussions of this sort it is essential that we delineate linear distortions from non-linear distortions. Frequency response aberations are linear.

The horn or waveguide dominates the frequency response of the system, although there are a couple of driver effects. One is the resonance of air arround the voice coil - this needs to be controlled - and at higher frequencies there are diaphragm resonances. But basically compression drivers are far flatter devices than piston sources. This is because of the high damping both acoustically and electro-mechanically.

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