http://www.mother-of-tone.com/vibration.htm
... but especially the following page:
http://www.mother-of-tone.com/mother.htm
But read at your own risk, as you will not be the same after.
Paper Based Speaker Cone Question
I find the Mother of Tone web site to be an outstanding reference toward the understanding of this subject - this page in particular: http://www.mother-of-tone.com/vibration.htm ... but especially the following page: http://www.mother-of-tone.com/mother.htm But read at your own risk, as you will not be the same after. |
First consider the question in context….of a true Walsh driver…if you understand how they work the waveform must propagate along the driver surface, so a stiff non pistonic cone is ideal. in a more conventional box speaker / driver arrangement, IF you want the output to look like the input, you want a pistonic driver. IF the speaker / driver designer is focused on recreating the input aka music without distortion, they will have to get creative with various exotic materials like aluminum, bextrene, doping, kevlar, carbon, balsa wood, etc…. None of which constitute a free lunch. The key here is output = input, otherwise you are buying a tone control you like… nothing wrong with that…. Audiophile know thyself…. Jim
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