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nutyo t1_iy5j0pl wrote

Reply to comment by Phoenix-Anima23 in Headphone wizardry by SupOrSalad

It doesn't matter how many upvotes this gets it is wrong. A single driver absolutely does produce multiple frequencies or sound waves at once. It is just that at any single point in time the sound pressure it is producing is a summation of those frequencies.

EDIT. My first sentence was too harsh.

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Phoenix-Anima23 t1_iy5jvy8 wrote

How I see it is like in an instrument. Do you think of the sound it produces as 1 sound or multiple sounds that ultimately add up to what you hear?

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nutyo t1_iy5lba3 wrote

You could absolutely say that the summation of all the frequencies a driver produces is also a soundwave. It would just be irregular and ever changing.

And a driver is far more capable than a single instrument seeing as it could reproduce an entire orchestra, choir and band's worth of sounds all at once. The sound it is producing is a summation of all the sounds it is producing and our experience of listening to it is definitely better described as multiple sounds as your brain can easily pick apart a violin and a drum playing and the same time.

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20EYES t1_iy5vp43 wrote

This is really semantics. IMO it produces multiple frequencies but not multiple waveforms.

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