S shadyJ Speaker of the House Staff member Oct 16, 2006 12,053 0 113 Dec 30, 2020 #141 mazersteven said: ^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear? Click to expand... Break-up can be very audible and ruinous to the sound. You can still use drivers that run into severe break-up modes, but the response has to be heavily filtered to make the modes inaudible. Break-up modes are one of the reasons why I have never heard a full-range driver speaker that I have liked. I should add that you can still make a perfectly fine speaker using titanium. You just have to properly filter out the cone break-up with the crossover circuit. Reactions: redboat77 and mazersteven
mazersteven said: ^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear? Click to expand... Break-up can be very audible and ruinous to the sound. You can still use drivers that run into severe break-up modes, but the response has to be heavily filtered to make the modes inaudible. Break-up modes are one of the reasons why I have never heard a full-range driver speaker that I have liked. I should add that you can still make a perfectly fine speaker using titanium. You just have to properly filter out the cone break-up with the crossover circuit.
redboat77 Enthusiast Dec 29, 2020 21 0 1 67 Dec 30, 2020 #142 mazersteven said: ^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear? Click to expand... Of course, one would have to listen to the actual speakers, but increasing the primary (2nd and 3rd order) harmonics generated by nonlinearities by 100% is concerning to me. Harmonic distortion seems to be a good stand-in for measuring the audio detail offered by speakers. My limited past experience with high end speakers indicates this is where they qualitatively depart most radically from more compromised implementations. Reactions: mazersteven
mazersteven said: ^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear? Click to expand... Of course, one would have to listen to the actual speakers, but increasing the primary (2nd and 3rd order) harmonics generated by nonlinearities by 100% is concerning to me. Harmonic distortion seems to be a good stand-in for measuring the audio detail offered by speakers. My limited past experience with high end speakers indicates this is where they qualitatively depart most radically from more compromised implementations.
