The most popular material for speaker wire is copper, which is affordable and conducts electricity well. However, copper can ...

What happens when you combine a fan with a sub-woofer? Apparently, you get a high-efficiency ultra low hertz (3-5hz) rotary subwoofer! First thing’s first, believe it or not, these things rea… ...

Figure 2 This vintage field coil speaker photo was posted on eBay. The forgoing has for all these years been part of my personal gospel and I started writing this essay with the idea of describing a ...

The harder the speaker is played, the more heat is generated within the voice coil, and, at some point, you will surpass the voice coil’s ability to travel and/or dissipate that heat. Failures of ...

Santa Clara, California-based Xmems has been in stealth mode since it was founded in October 2017. Now the company is aiming to replace voice coil speakers that have been around for a century.

Traditionally, speakers — whether in media rooms or earbuds — create sound the same way, using a combination of coils, magnets, and diaphragms.

Wearables like watches and glasses are poised to become the primary alternative to earbuds, enabling hands-free, ears-free AI ...

You can overheat the speaker by turning it up too high and overpowering it, and you really don't want to fry the inside of ...

The benefits of a compact speaker are not limited to size and weight. By reducing the space and weight of a component, you’re allowing for a slimmer, better-looking build and more space for ...

Speakers used to be largish electromechanical affairs, with magnets, moving coils, and paper cones all working together to move air around in a pleasing way. They’ve gotten much smaller, of c… ...

Traditionally, speakers — whether in media rooms or earbuds — create sound the same way, using a combination of coils, magnets, and diaphragms. Multiple parts, multiple points of failure, and a high ...

There isn’t any way you can lower the impedance of your speakers–that’s set by the designer and the voice coil windings and crossover parts, but you can check the impedance of any speaker by looking ...