Comments on ‘‘Theory, ingenuity, and wishful wizardry in loudspeaker design—A half-century of progress?’’ [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 7 7, 1303–1308 (1985)]
Edgar Villchur · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1986
Some of Augspurger’s statements about the acoustic-suspension speaker system are questioned. These concern the nonlinearity of the air spring in the enclosure, FM distortion, the definition of the acoustic-suspension principle as the use of a heavy cone, and the effect of the acoustic-suspension design on electroacoustic efficiency.