Spider and surround suspensions are at the origin of viscoelastic and nonlinear behaviors of loudspeakers because of their assembly geometry and their intrinsic materials. We propose here a new dynamic experimental method to characterize these properties. We drive the loudspeaker moving part with a shaker and measure the driving force, the acceleration, the velocity, and the displacement. Results are presented and discussed for a given loudspeaker, which surround suspensions exhibit viscoelastic behavior.

Authors: Maillou, Balbine; Lotton, Pierrick; Novak, Antonin; Simon, Laurent
Affiliations: Université du Maine, UMR CNRS 6613, Le Mans, France; Orkidia Audio, Bidart, France(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 136 (April 2014) Paper Number: 9058
Publication Date: April 25, 2014 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Transducers
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