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Speaker material question.

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Sonorous

Oct 1, 2003
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So there are all kinds of materials that speaker cones can be made out of. There are also all kinds of magnets and sizes that can be used to make a speaker.

Does anyone have a good site that explains all the things these variable affect? Or if not, is there anyone that knows and can tell me?
 
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Sonorous said:
So there are all kinds of materials that speaker cones can be made out of. There are also all kinds of magnets and sizes that can be used to make a speaker.

Does anyone have a good site that explains all the things these variable affect? Or if not, is there anyone that knows and can tell me?
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Go to www.webervst.com, read the FAQ and other relevant pages, and then talk to Ted Weber himself, for starters. I used to work with a reconer in my shop, and all I can say is that serious voodoo is involved in driver design and construction. :cool:
 
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Petebass said:
That's because no-one here makes speakers. Who knows for sure what the answer to your questions is? I'm not having a go at you because I too am curious, but if no-one knows, getting snarky isn't going to make the answer magically pop into our heads.
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I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just stating a fact. I appreciate when a person gives input, but I won't thank a person for something they did not do.

And I understand that nobody here makes speakers, but I don't think there are many people here that make strings, or Bartolini pickups, or Modulus basses... or a person's fingers. Regardless, they know how they characterize a sound.

The difference between roundwounds and flatwounds has been covered thoroughly, so why not the difference between paper cones or aluminum cones, or alnico magnets, ceramic, and neodymium?

Many people realize that a 2x15" is going to sound deeper than the punch of a 6x10. I'm just asking someone to expand on that a bit.
 
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Hi Sonorous, the Weber site is one of the better ones. Ted is the MAN when it comes to speakers, he's probably one of the most knowledgeable (and helpful) people on the planet in that regard. For cabinet issues, search Google using "speaker construction", there is a wealth of information there. Here are a few interesting links for the speakers themselves:

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_1_1/v1n1spk.html

http://www.birotechnology.com/FAQ/cones.html

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Also check out the books "Loudspeakers" - Vol. 1 thru 4 from the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Anthology Series.
 

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