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Modeling the Large Signal Behavior of Micro-Speakers

Authors: Klippel, Wolfgang

AES Convention 133 · Paper 8749 · October 2012

Abstract

The mechanical and acoustical losses considered in the lumped parameter modeling of electro-dynamical transducers may become a dominant source of nonlinear distortion in micro-speakers, tweeters, headphones, and some horn compression drivers where the total quality factor Qts is not dominated by the electrical damping realized by a high force factor Bl and a low voice resistance Re. This paper presents a nonlinear model describing the generation of the distortion and a new dynamic measurement technique for identifying the nonlinear resistance Rms(v) as a function of voice coil velocity v. The theory and the identification technique are verified by comparing distortion and other nonlinear symptoms measured on micro-speakers as used in cellular phones with the corresponding behavior predicted by the nonlinear model.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 133
AES Convention
133
Paper number
8749
Publication date
October 6, 2012
Session subject
Transducers
Affiliation
Klippel GmbH, Dresden, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper