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FrenchieSmalls t1_iy69vk4 wrote

Reply to comment by kazuviking in Headphone wizardry by SupOrSalad

It absolutely does. I don't understand what this meme is trying to say.

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SupOrSalad OP t1_iy6brcj wrote

It's just a play on how transducers make sound. The speaker itself is only moving up and down to generate a single waveform. It's just that the waveform is a combination of many frequencies which our ears and brain is able to decipher as individual sounds

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FamousBear t1_iy7fsd0 wrote

Fourier series in a nutshell

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FrenchieSmalls t1_iy91xwz wrote

But the Fourier series is "multiple sound waves at the same time with just one driver". That's precisely my point!

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FrenchieSmalls t1_iy6cv4y wrote

If you consider digital reconstruction, though, that single wave is literally the combination of many simple sine waves.

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SupOrSalad OP t1_iy6dnq6 wrote

Yeah. It's just a meme based on semantics, that's all. It's producing multiple sounds, just in one waveform. Nothing to take seriously

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Marathalayan t1_iy88nxp wrote

You almost understood it but I think if you look deeply superposition once again you would understand how this meme is meaningful and deeply true. I had a hard time in understanding this for long, and one day I got in!!

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Beor_TheOld t1_iyco6tg wrote

The transducer only has one degree of freedom, but the diaphragm has infinitely many 3D (axial, radial, displacement) vibrational modes, arguably 4D since different input frequencies generate different vibrational modes. There are some really pretty gifs at the end of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations_of_a_circular_membrane

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_iyco8kz wrote

Vibrations of a circular membrane

>A two-dimensional elastic membrane under tension can support transverse vibrations. The properties of an idealized drumhead can be modeled by the vibrations of a circular membrane of uniform thickness, attached to a rigid frame. Due to the phenomenon of resonance, at certain vibration frequencies, its resonant frequencies, the membrane can store vibrational energy, the surface moving in a characteristic pattern of standing waves. This is called a normal mode.

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