Caitlan Messages: 42 Registered: April 2017 Location: California
Baron
Speakers come is so many different sizes these days. Big, small, tall, short. But do you think that they'll ever be as small as a USB and play music extremely loud? Is it possible?
Wayne Parham Messages: 18792 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
You're right, John. It's physics, and has been mathematically quantified in Hoffman's Iron Law and Thiele/Small analysis.
The physics of a electro-mechanico-acoustic device dictate that it can be made small only if efficiency and/or bass extension are sacrificed.
So you can make a small loudspeaker, but you can't make a small loudspeaker that is loud and covers the whole audio band. You can optimize any two of those attributes, but not all three simultaneously.
In other words, are we bound to remain with the large speakers for quite a while? I wish physics would have a solution to this, sooner than later. I think a smaller size comes with portability.
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