How speakers make sound

Re:How speakers make sound by baddox on Saturday November 29, 2014 @05:45PM (#8675349)

On the other end of the audio stack, I highly recommend this multipart video lecture about microphone design. The guy is a legit microphone engineer who knows what he's talking about and explains it really well. Some of the principles, like how directional vs. omnidirectional microphones work, are actually quite intuitive and much simpler than I would have guessed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihAG6cMpUlY

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Re:How speakers make sound by yan on Saturday November 29, 2014 @09:34PM (#8675782)

eevblog is wonderful! During a recent side-track into electronics, I've been consuming all of Dave's (EEVblog) videos, all of Mike's (mikeselectricstuff) videos and all of Ben Krasnow's videos (Applied Science).

EEVblog is very specific to EE, Mike's Electric Stuff is electronics as well, but tends much more toward tear downs/obscure components/reverse engineering and Ben's channel is just a delectable collection of DIY everything. Ben became famous for building his own (and probably first DIY ever) electron scanning microscope, but has videos where he builds all sorts of amazing things in his home shop.

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Re:How speakers make sound by ak217 on Saturday November 29, 2014 @09:16PM (#8675733)

Cool! Any recommendations for good reads on DACs/ADCs?

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Re:How speakers make sound by worewood on Saturday November 29, 2014 @09:37PM (#8675787)

Man, studied those at the university, those things are very complicated...

I mean, simple ones are easily explained, but they sound awful, so to get a usable one it takes lots of theory.

Unlike speakers, which you can build at home and can sound OK.

That said, wikipedia is a surprisingly good source on this. Also, this circuit simulator (http://www.falstad.com/circuit/) comes with some DAC/ADC circuits builtin, and you can watch them live.

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