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Modeling Viscoelasticity of Loudspeaker Suspensions Using Retardation Spectra

It is well known that, due to viscoelastic effects in the suspension, the displacement of the loudspeaker increases with decreasing frequency below the resonance. Present creep models are either not precise enough or purely empirical and not derived from the basis of physics. In this investigation, the viscoelastic retardation spectrum, which provides a more fundamental description of the suspension viscoelasticity, is first used to explain the accuracy of the empirical LOG creep model (Knudsen et al.). Then, two extensions to the LOG model are proposed which include the low and high frequency limit of the compliance, not accounted for in the original LOG model. The new creep models are verified by measurements on two 5.5“ loudspeakers with different surrounds.

Authors: Agerkvist, Finn T.; Ritter, Tobias
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
AES Convention:129 (November 2010) Paper Number:8217 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Acoustical and Physical Modeling

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