An Improved Beryllium Dome Diaphragm Assembly for Large Format Compression Drivers

Buck M, Saye S, Simmons G. An Improved Beryllium Dome Diaphragm Assembly for Large Format Compression Drivers. In: AES Convention 129. Audio Engineering Society; 2010. Paper 8190. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15612

@inproceedings{Buck2010_15612,
  author = {Buck, Marshall and Saye, Sam and Simmons, Gordon},
  title = {{An Improved Beryllium Dome Diaphragm Assembly for Large Format Compression Drivers}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 129},
  note = {Paper 8190},
  year = {2010},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15612}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - An Improved Beryllium Dome Diaphragm Assembly for Large Format Compression Drivers
AU  - Buck, Marshall
AU  - Saye, Sam
AU  - Simmons, Gordon
T2  - AES Convention 129
M1  - Paper 8190
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/11/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15612
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - We describe the development , manufacture and testing of a new large format compression driver diaphragm using a beryllium dome and new type of polymer surround that exhibits improved performance . This design promises to give long life and good reliability with little or no change in performance anticipated over the life of the diaphragm. A comprehensive set of tests of Beryllium, Aluminum and Titanium diaphragm compression drivers is described including frequency response, distortion and wavelet time domain analysis on a 2 inch plane wave tube. Substantial differences were measured in the performance categories, particularly in the frequency range above 4 kHz.
ER  -