Tuesday, December 16, 2014

waves - The shape of speaker cones



This is related to another question I just asked, but they are different enough I thought it deserved its own spot. Speaker elements seem to always be shaped like a cone with a portion of a sphere at the center. What is the physics reasoning behind this shape being so standard? Is it a precise shape that all speaker elements share (e.g. parabaloid + sphere), or just kind of a general shape that "works well"? Does it work just as well for any light solid, or is it actually tuned to the speed at which sound propogates through the speaker element?




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