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Loudspeaker Spider Linearity

Authors: Hutt, Steven

AES Convention 108 · Paper 5159 · February 2000

Abstract

Loudspeaker voice coil suspensions (referred to as spiders) are traditionally made of phenolic resin impregnated textiles. The spider's function is to maintain voice coil centering in the magnetic gap, while at the same time allowing axial motion of the voice coil. Several types of spiders were compared with differing geometry and materials, with the goal of developing a spider with potentially long-linear excursion.:

Details

Published in
AES Convention 108
AES Convention
108
Paper number
5159
Publication date
February 6, 2000
Session subject
Transducers
Affiliation
Senior Transducer Engineer, Harman OEM Group North America and Asia, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper