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Woofers, Tweeters, and Crossovers: Understanding Speakers

Woofers, Tweeters, and Crossovers: Understanding Speakers

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Speakers are essential to any audio system. From tweeters to woofers, speakers are the components that provide movies, music, and sports with sounds that are often taken for granted.

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Microphones convert sound into electrical impulses that can be recorded onto some form of storage media. Once captured and stored, it can be reproduced at a later time or place. To hear recorded sound, a playback device, an amplifier, and most importantly, a loudspeaker are needed.

A loudspeaker is a device that converts electrical signals into sound as a result of an electromechanical process.

Loudspeakers generally have the following construction: