How Speakers Work

The speakers in any sound system determine its final quality. If the system is connected to subpar speakers, even the best recording, encoded on the most cutting-edge storage device and played through the finest deck and amplifier, would sound terrible.

A system’s speaker is the component that takes the electronic signal stored on things like CDs, tapes and DVDs and turns it back into actual sound that we can hear.

This essay will explain just how speakers accomplish this. We’ll also examine the variations in speaker designs and how sound quality is impacted by them. Speakers are incredible technological innovations that have significantly changed our culture. But fundamentally, they are quite basic machines.