In the last posting I made, I did the typical over-simplification and implied that the movement of a loudspeaker diaphragm is “pistonic” (meaning that the whole diaphragm moves as one solid, stiff structure).
In real life, this is not true. I’ll write more about this in a future posting, but for now, I made an animation to show a couple of examples of an exaggerated real life… There’ll be an explanation of this later.
Teddy says:
Wow, there are many modes of cone movement I did not realize could happen. very insightful.
Looking forward to your next post!
geoff says:
Hi Teddy,
Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg… For lots more information on this, you should check the information available under the “literature” link at klippel.de.
Cheers
– geoff