Thanks Karls, I think I have read this somewhere as well. Rives, with all due respect, I don't think the frequency response of the driver actually has anything to do with its sensitivity.
With regard to efficiency, this is not exactly the same as sensitivity. The sensitivity rating accounts for the impedance of the speaker so it needs to be adjusted accordingly if compared to a speaker with a different impedance rating.
After a little research, I have found that it is true that in order to lower the fundamental resonant frequency of the speaker system, you must either increase the size of the enclosure, or decrease its efficiency.
It's not intuitively obvious why lower efficiency results in a lower fundamental, but I guess this results in more air pressure in the enclosure, which in turn results in a higher amplitude at the resonant frequency of the enclosure?
Can any speaker designers tell us if this makes sense?
With regard to efficiency, this is not exactly the same as sensitivity. The sensitivity rating accounts for the impedance of the speaker so it needs to be adjusted accordingly if compared to a speaker with a different impedance rating.
After a little research, I have found that it is true that in order to lower the fundamental resonant frequency of the speaker system, you must either increase the size of the enclosure, or decrease its efficiency.
It's not intuitively obvious why lower efficiency results in a lower fundamental, but I guess this results in more air pressure in the enclosure, which in turn results in a higher amplitude at the resonant frequency of the enclosure?
Can any speaker designers tell us if this makes sense?