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Voice coil

Index Voice coil

A voice coil (consisting of a former, collar, and winding) is the coil of wire attached to the apex of a loudspeaker cone. [1]

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Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Active vibration control

Active vibration control is the active application of force in an equal and opposite fashion to the forces imposed by external vibration.

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Air gap

Air gap may refer to.

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Analog delay line

An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference or phase change between its input signal and its output signal.

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Apple ProFile

The ProFile was the first hard disk drive produced by Apple Computer, initially for use with the Apple III personal computer.

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Audio system measurements

Audio system measurements are made for several purposes.

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Computer Memories Inc.

Computer Memories Inc. (CMI) was a Chatsworth, California manufacturer of hard disks during the early 1980s.

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Copper-clad aluminium wire

Copper-clad aluminium wire, commonly abbreviated as CCAW or CCA, is an electrical conductor composed of an inner aluminium core and outer copper cladding.

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Cromemco 4FDC

The Cromemco 4FDC Floppy Disk Controller is designed to interface both 5.25- and 8.0-inch floppy disk drives to the S-100 computer bus used in Cromemco and other IEEE 696 computers.

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Damping factor

In an audio system, the damping factor gives the ratio of the rated impedance of the loudspeaker to the source impedance.

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Diaphragm (acoustics)

In the field of acoustics, a diaphragm is a transducer intended to inter-convert mechanical vibrations to sounds, or vice versa.

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DigitalOptics Corporation

DigitalOptics Corporation (DOC) is a San Jose, California-based technology company that designs and manufactures imaging systems for smartphones.

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Dummy load

A dummy load is a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes.

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Dust cap

The dust cap (also known as dust dome, or dome) is a gently curved dome mounted either in concave or convex orientation over the central hole of most loudspeaker diaphragms.

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Electrical characteristics of dynamic loudspeakers

The chief electrical characteristic of a dynamic loudspeaker's driver is its electrical impedance as a function of frequency.

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Electromagnetic coil

An electromagnetic coil is an electrical conductor such as a wire in the shape of a coil, spiral or helix.

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Embedded servo

Embedded servo or wedge servo is a type of servo configuration used on hard disks.

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Excursion (audio)

Excursion is defined as how far the cone of a speaker linearly travels from its resting position.

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Ferrofluid

A ferrofluid (portmanteau of ferromagnetic and fluid) is a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field.

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Fessenden oscillator

A Fessenden oscillator is an electro-acoustic transducer invented by Reginald Fessenden, with development starting in 1912 at the Submarine Signal Company of Boston.

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Field coil loudspeaker

A field coil loudspeaker is a dynamic loudspeaker in which the field is produced by an electromagnet rather than by a permanent magnet.

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Full-range speaker

A full-range loudspeaker drive unit is defined as a driver which reproduces as much of the audible frequency range as possible, within the limitations imposed by the physical constraints of a specific design.

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Gain compression

Gain compression is a reduction in "differential" or "slope" gain caused by nonlinearity of the transfer function of the amplifying device.

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Halbach array

A Halbach array is a special arrangement of permanent magnets that augments the magnetic field on one side of the array while cancelling the field to near zero on the other side.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.

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Hard disk drive performance characteristics

Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics.

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Headphones

Headphones (or head-phones in the early days of telephony and radio) are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.

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Hearing aid

A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.

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High-pass filter

A high-pass filter (HPF) is an electronic filter that passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency.

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IBM 2260

The text-only monochrome IBM 2260 cathode ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended to support color text and graphics.

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JBL

JBL is an American company that manufactures loudspeaker and associated electronics.

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Line printer

A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.

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Lipinski Sound

Lipinski Sound is a professional market and audiophile oriented manufacturer of loudspeakers, subwoofers, powered speaker stands (patent pending), surround sound systems, power amplifiers, microphones, and microphone preamplifiers.

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Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker) is an electroacoustic transducer; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.

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Magnepan

Magnepan is a private high-end-audio loudspeaker manufacturer in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, United States.

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Magnet

A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.

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MiniScribe

MiniScribe was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980.

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NCR Century 100

The NCR Century 100 was NCR's first all integrated circuit computer built in 1968.

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Neodymium magnet

A neodymium magnet (also known as NdFeB, NIB or Neo magnet), the most widely used type of rare-earth magnet, is a permanent magnet made from an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron to form the Nd2Fe14B tetragonal crystalline structure.

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Nikon 1 Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom

The Nikon 1 Nikkor VR 10-100 mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom for the 1 series' unique CX format (crop factor 2.7) is a Superzoom lens manufactured by Nikon, introduced in September 2011 for use on Nikon CX format mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras.

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Nikon 1 series

The Nikon 1 series are high-speed mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras with 60 frames per second (fps) continuous shooting speed, using Nikon 1-mount lenses and announced on 21 September 2011.

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Parabolic loudspeaker

A parabolic loudspeaker is a loudspeaker which seeks to focus its sound in coherent plane waves either by reflecting sound output from a speaker driver to a parabolic reflector aimed at the target audience, or by arraying drivers on a parabolic surface.

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Passive radiator (speaker)

A speaker enclosure using a passive radiator (PR) usually contains an "active loudspeaker" (or main driver), and a passive radiator (also known as a "drone cone").

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Pole piece

A pole piece is a structure composed of material of high magnetic permeability that serves to direct the magnetic field produced by a magnet.

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Public address system

A public address system (PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.

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RK05

The RK05 DECpack was a moving head magnetic disk drive manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts.

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Rotary woofer

A rotary woofer is a subwoofer-style loudspeaker which reproduces very low frequency content by using a conventional speaker voice coil's motion to change the pitch of a set of fan blades rotating at a constant speed.

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Samsung NX-mount

The Samsung NX-mount is the lens mount used on NX series mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras by Samsung.

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Scrim (material)

The term scrim has two separate meanings in terms of fabric.

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Solenoid

A solenoid (/ˈsolə.nɔɪd/) (from the French solénoïde, derived in turn from the Greek solen ("pipe, channel") and eidos ("form, shape")) is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix.

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Sound reinforcement system

A sound reinforcement system is the combination of microphones, signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers in enclosures all controlled by a mixing console that makes live or pre-recorded sounds louder and may also distribute those sounds to a larger or more distant audience.

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Speaker driver

A speaker driver is an individual loudspeaker transducer that converts an electrical audio signal to sound waves.

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Speaker wire

Speaker wire is used to make the electrical connection between loudspeakers and audio amplifiers.

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Tactile transducer

A tactile transducer or "bass shaker" is a device which is made on the principle that low bass frequencies can be felt as well as heard.

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Telephone

A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.

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Transducer

A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.

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Tweeter

A tweeter or treble speaker is a special type of loudspeaker (usually dome or horn-type) that is designed to produce high audio frequencies, typically from around 2,000 Hz to 20,000 Hz (generally considered to be the upper limit of human hearing).

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Wire

A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal.

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Woofer

A woofer or bass speaker is a technical term for loudspeaker driver designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from 40 Hz up to 500 Hz.

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Zip drive

The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_coil

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